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Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies, 4610 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4610, (919) 807-7280
Federation web page: www.fnchs.org
Historical Publications from Federation Members
This annual list shows historical
publications that are available
from members of the Federation of
N.C. Historical Societies. Though
every effort has been made to ensure
the accuracy of this list, please
contact the members listed below to
confirm prices and availability.
ALLEGHANY HISTORICAL-GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETY is selling
History of Alleghany County,
NC 1859-1976 for $45, plus $3
shipping and $3.04 tax (for NC
residents); Alleghany County
Heritage, featuring county, town-ship,
and community histories,
more than 700 family histories,
and photos, for $48 plus $3 shipping
and $3.24 tax Alleghany County
Cemeteries through 1986,
containing burial data from 300
family, church, and community
burial plots, for $15 plus $2.75
shipping and $1.01 tax; Alleghany
Architecture: A Pictorial
Survey, $30 plus $3 shipping and
$2.03 tax; Mary’s Memories, by
Mary Lyon Harless, lifelong
county resident who published the
book in 2000 on the occasion of
her 100th birthday, for $8 plus
$1.50 shipping and $.54 tax; Foot
Prints on the Sands of Time, by
Dr. Aras B. Cox, focusing on the
history of southwestern Virginia
and Northwestern North Carolina,
for $15 plus $2 shipping and $1.01
tax; 1938 Video of Sparta,
North Carolina, featuring
scenes of downtown Sparta, Roar-ing
Gap Fish Hatchery, and the
Alleghany County Agricultural
Fair and scenes from a trip to the
1939 Worlds Fair in New York,
$11 plus $1.50 shipping and $.68
tax; and Recipes that Raised
Us, a memorial cookbook featuring
recipes of friends and family who
have passed away, with proceeds
from the cookbook benefiting the
building project of the Alleghany
County Public Library, for $20,
plus $3 shipping and $1.35 tax or
3 books for $45 plus $7 shipping
plus $3.04 tax. Please note that all
taxes listed are for N.C. residents
only. To order, visit www.sparta
store.com or send a check, payable
to Alleghany Historical-
Genealogical Society, to PO Box
817, Sparta, NC 28675. The society
also notes that Alleghany
County, NC Marriages: 1849-
1900, is available for $20.50 plus
$5 shipping from Heritage Books
at (800) 398-7709.
THE ALLIANCE FOR HISTORIC
HILLSBOROUGH is offering annual
journals published by the Histori-cal
Foundation of Hillsborough
and Orange County. The journals
chronicle the diverse history of
Hillsborough and Orange County,
N.C., through the compilation and
publication of articles by noted
area historians. The volumes are
$10 each or $19.95 for a three
journal collection and are avail-able
through the Alliance at 150
E. King Street, Hillsborough, N.C.
27278, (919) 732-7741. The Burwell
School, which is part of the Alliance,
is offering The Book of Burwell
Students, by Mary Claire Engstrom,
for $17.95. For more information,
call (919) 732-7451.
ANSON COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY, INC., has the following
books available: Cemeteries of
Anson County, Volume I (with
map of county), $50, plus $5 ship-ping;
Cemeteries of Anson
County Volume II, by A. Haynes
Dunlap and others, $40, plus $7
shipping; The History of Anson
County, 1750-1976, by Mary
Louise Medley, $40, plus $5 ship-ping;
Eastview Cemetery,
Wadesboro, N.C., $50, plus $5
shipping; Notes on the Move-ment
of the 14th North Caro-lina
Regiment, by Thomas J.
Watkins, transcribed from the
original with introduction by Jane
P. Cunningham, $12. Send orders
to ACHS, 206 E. Wade St.,
Wadesboro, N.C. 28170.
ASHE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCI-ETY:
Heritage of Ashe County,
Volumes I and II ($80 each, plus
$11.20 tax and shipping); Images
of Ashe County, ($19.99, plus
$3.80 tax and shipping); Ashe
County Revisited, Pictorial Col-lection,
($19.99, plus $3.80 tax
and shipping); Ashe County
Cemetery Records (2 volumes),
$60, plus $9.90 tax and shipping;
and Ashe County Marriage Re-cords
1800-1900, ($30, plus $4.95
tax and shipping). Arthur Fletcher’s
1963 book Ashe County: A History
has been reprinted with a new
preface and expanded index. Call
(336)246-2041 for more information.
To order, contact the Ashe County
Historical Society, Ashe County
Public Library, 148 Library Drive,
West Jefferson, N.C. 28694.
BEAUFORT HISTORICAL ASSOCIA-TION:
Beaufort-by-The-Sea,
Journey Back in Time, by Rick
and Marcie Carroll, $24.95; Beau-fort,
An Album of Memories, by
Jack Dudley, $47.95; Beaufort’s
Old Burying Ground, by Diane
Hardy, Mamre Wilson, and
Marilyn Collins, $18.99; “Kith
and Kin” of Eastern Carteret
County, by Thelma Pake Simpson
and Rebecca Willis Sanders,
$25.00; Carteret County History
and Folklore, by Mary and Gray-den
Paul, $12.99; History of the
Hammock House and Related
Trivia, by Maurice Davis, $12.00;
North Carolina’s Coastal Car-teret
County During the Ameri-can
Revolution, edited by Jean
Bruyere Kell, as a project of the
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Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies, 4610 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4610, (919) 807-7280
Federation web page: www.fnchs.org
Historical Publications from Federation Members
the role Caldwell County people
have played in America’s wars,
$24.95 plus $1.69 tax, with ship-ping
costing $4 for the first copy
and $2 for each additional copy.
For information, call (828) 758-
4004, or e-mail Caldheritmus@aol.
com.
THE CAPE FEAR MUSEUM is sell-ing
A Boat for All Seas: The
Simmons Sea-Skiff, by museum
guest curator David Carnell and
curator Barbara Rowe, $10. The
book reproduces many photographs
and objects included in the
Waves and Currents exhibit.
Available from the CFM, 814
Market Street, Wilmington, N.C.
28401-4731, (910) 798-4350.
CAPITAL AREA PRESERVATION,
INC.: Gleanings from Long Ago,
by Ellen Mordecai, first-hand
remembrances of antebellum
plantation life, $8.50; Raleigh,
North Carolina’s Capital, by
Elizabeth C. Waugh, a chronologi-cal
tour of Raleigh’s historic archi-tecture,
$26.70; and The Historic
Architecture of Wake County,
by Kelly A. Lally, a comprehensive
look at Wake County’s architectural
history. Add $5 for shipping to all
orders. CAPI, PO Box 28072,
Raleigh, N.C. 27611, (919) 833-
6404, www.cappresinc.org
CAROLINAS GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETY: The Heritage of Union
County, North Carolina, 1842-
1992, Volume I, edited by Virginia
Kendrick, is available for $59,
including tax and shipping. The
512-page, hardbound volume is
printed on acid-free paper and
contains 875 family histories. The
society is also offering Volume II,
a 328-page supplement to the first
volume that includes a list of Union
County Confederate soldiers with
a brief biography. The cost is $62,
including tax and shipping. Also
available: Sketches of Monroe
and Union County, by Stack and
Beasley. First published in 1902,
this book is indexed and illustrated
and contains descriptions of natural
resources and business enterprises
as well as interesting profiles of
the townspeople of that era. Cost:
$15.50, including tax and shipping.
To order, contact the society at PO
Box 397, Monroe, NC 28111.
CARTERET COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: A Postal History of
Carteret County, NC, by Charles
Pitt; Growing Up Down East
and Other True Stories, by
Elmo Gaskill, $5.95; Stella: A
Riverside Hamlet, $30, by Lib
Sawyers, $30; Revolution of
Coastal North Carolina, by
Jean Day, $9.95; Ocracoke Album,
by Jack Dudley, $40; Revolution
of Coastal Carolina, by Jean
Day, $9.95; Masons of Carteret
County, by William Mason, $40;
Turning Back the Tide, by Ruth
Barbour, $10.95; Coastal Waters,
by Scott Taylor, $29.85; Rum
Runners, U-Boats, and Hurri-canes,
by Bryan Galecki, $19.95;
South River, by Dollie Carraway,
$55; A Shadow In the Sea, by
Jim W. Bunch, $29.95; Maritime
Reflections, by Sonny William-son
and Stephen Goodwin, $14.50;
History of the Hammock House
and Related Trivia, by Maurice
Davis, $12.50; Postcard History
Series: Carteret County,
$19.99; and The Fulchers of
Carteret County, $30. The
Carteret County Historical Society
is also selling the following books
focusing on Morehead City: Yester-day
and Today, Morehead City
Woman’s Club, $20.00; A Picto-rial
Review of Morehead City,
Morehead City Woman’s Club,
$25.00; Twelve Historic Homes,
Joan Allen, $2.00; Morehead
JUNE 2009 Supplement to the Federation Bulletin PAGE 2
Carteret County Bicentennial
Commission, $25.00; Carteret
County During the Civil War,
by Jean Kell, $35.00; Carteret
County Census of 1790, $3.50;
Carteret County Postcard His-tory,
by Linda Sadler and Kevin
Jenkins, $19.95; A Brief History
of Beaufort and Carteret
County, North Carolina, by
Mamre Wilson, $6.00; and Story
of Beaufort, by Mamre Wilson,
$19.99. Tax and shipping will be
added to all items. For more infor-mation,
contact the Beaufort His-torical
Association at (800) 575-
7483 or by email at beauforthistoric
site@earthlink.net.
THE CALDWELL COUNTY HERI-TAGE
MUSEUM: The following
books are available by Matthew C.
Bumgarner, Kirk’s Raiders,
$29.95 for non-members, $23.95
for members; My Face to the
Enemy, $12 for non-members,
$9.60 for members; and The
Watauga and Yadkin River
Railroad, $24.95 for non-members,
$19.95 for members.
Also available are Tom Dooley: A
Wilkes County Legend, by
Karen W. Reynolds, $14.00 for
members and non-members;
Collett Leventhorpe: The English
Confederate, by J. Timothy Cole
and Bradley R. Foley, $35 for non-members,
$30.40 for members,;
the following three books by Michael
C. Hardy, Remembering Avery
County, $19.99 for non-members,
$16 for members, A Short History
of Watauga County, $24.95 for
non-members, $19.95 for members,
and Remembering North Caro-lina
Confederates, $19.99 for
non-members and $16 for mem-bers;
In the Footsteps of Daniel
Boone, by Randall Jones, $11.95
for members and non-members;
and Wars and Rumor of Wars,
by John O. Hawkins, focusing on
Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies, 4610 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4610, (919) 807-7280
Federation web page: www.fnchs.org
Historical Publications from Federation Members
City, Jack Dudley, $44.95; More-head
City on the Waterfront,
Reginald W. Lewis, $19.99; Rodney
Kemp’s Walking Tour of More-head
City, $2.00; The Promised
Land Cookbook, Franklin
Memorial United Methodist
Church, $12.00; Carteret
County, Lynn Salsi and Frances
Eubanks $18.99; Index for Kith
and Kin, indexed by Phil Hast-ings,
$15.00; Post Cards from
Morehead City: 50 Years of
History 1957-2007, $29.95; and
Carteret County Cemetery
Books: Volume I – Beaufort and
East of the Newport River and
Volume II – West of the Newport
River (Also on CD). Please call for
prices on cemetery books and CD.
For orders, contact the History
Place, (252) 247-7533, history-place@
starfishnet.com, or visit
www.thehistoryplace.org.
THE CASWELL COUNTY HISTORI-CAL
ASSOCIATION has the following
books available: When the Past
Refused to Die: A History of
Caswell County, 1777-1977, by
Dr. W.S. Powell; Architectural
Inventory of Caswell County:
The Built Environment of a
Burley and Brightleaf Tobacco
Economy, by Ruth Little-Stokes;
In the Beginning, The
Churches of Caswell County;
Their Highest Potential: An
African American School
Community in the Segregated
South, by Vanessa Siddle Walker;
and The Dan River Book: Odys-sey,
Epic, Guide, by Forest
Altman. For information, call the
Richmond-Miles Museum at (336)
694-4965 between 12 noon and 4
p.m., Tuesday to Friday.
CATAWBA COUNTY HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION is selling George
Rabb: The Civil War Memoir of
a Catawba County Tar Heel,
edited by Rabb’s grandniece,
Rebecca Ikerd Alghrary. This 80-
page book brings to life both the
war’s brutality and its interludes
of mercy. Cost: $18.95. The asso-ciation
is also selling: The Cataw-bans,
Vol. I: Crafters of a North
Carolina County, by Gary R.
Freeze, (424 pages, hard cover,
$35.95); The Catawbans, Vol. II:
Pioneers in Progress, by Gary
R. Freeze (496-page chronicle,
$37.95); Catawba County: An
Architectural History, $25;
Old Wounds, by Steven Shaffer;
Yesterday’s Child by Dorothy
Sigmon Holbrook; and A Glow
from the Lamp, by Ruth Young
Proctor, a memoir about growing
up on a farm near the Catawba-
Burke County border. Visit
www.catawbahistory.org, or call
828-465-0383.
CHATHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION has The Gravesites
of Chatham County, North
Carolina, an alphabetical compi-lation
in two volumes of cemeter-ies
and grave markers by Will and
Audrey Heiser, $35; Chatham
County 1771-1971, edited by
Hadley, Horton and Strowd, $20;
The Architectural Heritage of
Chatham County, North Caro-lina,
by Osborn and Selden-
Sturgill, $35. This inventory has a
description and photographs of
each historic building in the book.
The association also offers The
Land Beneath the Waters, a 35-
minute documentary DVD
describing the history of the New
Hope valley now under the waters
of Jordan Lake, $10; Historical
Buildings of the Central Busi-ness
District, Siler City, by
Wade Hadley, a 30-page booklet,
$8; Siler City, North Carolina
1887-1987, by Wade Hadley,
reprint, 67-pages, $8; The Chat-ham
Railroad, by Robert A.
Wiesner, which traces the 16-year
history of “the railroad that never
was” during the tumultuous years
preceding and during the Civil
War, $10; 1870 Map of Chatham
County by Capt. N. A. Ramsey, a
reproduction that shows land-marks
plus many family locations,
$5; 1874 Map of the Coal Fields
of Chatham, by L. W. Jackson, a
color reproduction, $3; and
Tales Beyond Fried Rabbit:
Chatham’s Historical Heritage:
by Fred J. Vatter, $23.95. This
book is a compilation of articles,
each about an aspect of the county’s
history. Sales tax and shipping
are extra. For order form and
more, visit www.chathamhistory.
org or contact CCHA, P.O. Box 93,
Pittsboro, N.C. 27312.
CHEROKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL
MUSEUM has available The Heri-tage
of Cherokee County,
North Carolina, Volumes I, II,
and III. The volumes contain
family histories written by past
and current residents of the
county and include many old
photographs. Cost: $65 each,
including tax. Shipping is $7 for
each book ordered. Also available
is the hard-bound A Pictorial
History of Cherokee County,
which includes over 500 pictures
and notations relating to Cherokee
County. Cost: $34, including tax &
shipping. Marble and Log: The
History and Architecture of
Cherokee County, by Michael
Ann Williams, is available in soft
cover. It includes photographs,
essays, and an inventory of Chero-kee
County architecture. Cost:
$27, including tax & shipping.
Please make checks payable to the
Cherokee County Historical
Museum, 87 Peachtree St., Murphy,
NC 28906. For further information,
please call (828) 837-6792.
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Federation web page: www.fnchs.org
Historical Publications from Federation Members
CITY OF HIGH POINT PLANNING
AND DEVELOPMENT DEPART-MENT
is selling The Architecture
of High Point North Carolina, by
Benjamin Briggs, $39.99. This
book contains an architectural
history of High Point as well as an
inventory of many of its architec-turally
significant structures. To
order, please call (336) 883-3328.
COOLEEMEE HISTORICAL ASSO-CIATION
has the magazine-format
“Bobbin & Shuttle.” This publi-cation
is dedicated to the collection
and preservation of mill town
stories before they vanish and is
available from the Textile Heri-tage
Center, P.O. Box 667, Coolee-mee,
N.C. 27014. Issues 2-6 are
available for $3 each, with $2
shipping and handling for 1 to 2
copies and $1 shipping and handling
for each additional copy. Bulk
orders of 20 or more are $2 each
plus postage. The association is
also offering Cooleemee: The
Life & Times of a Mill Town, by
Jim Rumley, $40.66, plus $5 ship-ping;
and Saving Our Legacy:
Stories of the Vanishing World
of the Southern Cotton Mill
People: A “How To” Manual, by
Lynn Rumley and Sarah Bryan.
Written for people interested in
starting a mill town preservation
effort, this publication costs
$25,plus $6 shipping and handling.
Please call (336) 284-6040, or visit
www.textileheritage.org.
DAVIE COUNTY HISTORICAL AND
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY is offer-ing
the following: Davie County
… A Brief History, by James
Wall, paper cover, $7.50; The
Daniel, Squire and John
Boone Families in Davie
County, by Wall, Boone, & Martin,
$5; Davie County Marriages
1836-1900, by Nancy K. Murphy,
$25.00; Davie County Marriages
1901-1959, by Nancy K. Murphy,
$25; Davie County Cemeteries,
a two-volume set, $55; 1860
Federal Census: Davie County,
by Murphy and Sain, $17; 1870
Federal Census: Davie County,
by Murphy and Sain, $17; 1880
Federal Census: Davie County,
by Murphy and Sain, $22.50;
Maps: Lagle Land Grant, $6.50;
Hughes Historical, $6.50; 1887
Alderman, $2.50; Postcards (set of
8), $2.50. N.C. residents add 7%
sales tax. Order through the
DCHGS, 371 North Main Street,
Mocksville, N.C. 27028.
DUKE HOMESTEAD STATE HIS-TORIC
SITE: Bull Durham Busi-ness
Bonanza 1866-1940, by Ben
and Snow Roberts, $21.95; The
Dukes of Durham 1865-1929, by
Robert F. Durden, $22.95; Bold
Entrepreneur: A Life of James
B. Duke, by Robert F. Durden,
$24.50. For more information, call
(919) 477-5498. All prices include
tax.
The DUPLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY is selling In Honor of
Duplin County's Vietnam War
Dead. This 46-page books contains
photos, histories, and family
memories of the nineteen Duplin
County men who died in service
during the Vietnam War. Cost:
$20. To order, please write to
DCHS, PO Box 775, Kenansville,
NC 28349.
EDENTON HISTORICAL COMMIS-SION:
Thomas Butchko’s Eden-ton:
An Architectural Portrait,
$35; Edenton, A Portrait in
Words and Pictures, $12; 300
Years in the Life of St. Paul’s,
by Ann Rouse Edwards, $15; and
“Take the Tour” Cookbook, St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church, $17.95.
Please call 252-482-7800.
FEDERAL POINT HISTORIC
PRESERVATION SOCIETY is offering
My Friend the Enemy: The Battle
at Fort Fisher as Recalled by
Colonel Lamb, CSA & General
Curtis, USA, fully illustrated,
$10 each; Carolina Beach: A
Postcard History, by Elaine
Henson, $19.95; Surfing on the
Cape Fear Coast, by Joseph
“Skipper” Funderburg, $29.95;
Carolina Beach: Images and
Icons of a Bygone Era, by D. R.
Norris, $29.95; Carolina Beach:
Friends and Neighbors Remem-bered,
by D. R. Norris, $29.95;
Big Book of the Cape Fear
River, by Claude Jackson, $39.95;
The Wilmington Campaign:
Last Days of Departing Hope, by
Chris E. Fonvielle, (used) $20; and
The Ferries of North Carolina,
by Barbara Brannon, $16.95. For
more information and to order,
please contact the Federal Point
Historical Society at PO Box 623,
Carolina Beach, NC 28428; call
(910) 458-0502; or send an email to
FPHPS@yahoo.com.
FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY:
Millicoma: Biography of a
Pacific Northwestern Forest,
by Arthur V. Smyth, 145 pages
plus photos and maps, $12.95,
plus $4 shipping; and The Con-servation
Diaries of Gifford
Pinchot, by Harold K. Steen; 230
pages plus photos and names index;
$29.95 hard cover or $19.95 soft
cover, plus $4 shipping. Forest
Sustainability: The History,
the Challenge, the Promise, by
Donald W. Floyd, provides a
historical context to the concept
of sustainable forestry, $10.95.
FHS, 701 Vickers Avenue, Durham,
NC 27701, or call (919) 682-9319.
GASTON COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Our Kin, by Miles Hoff-man,
$30; The County of Gaston:
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Federation web page: www.fnchs.org
Historical Publications from Federation Members
Two Centuries of a North
Carolina Region, by Robert
Cope and Manly Wade Wellman,
$10.50; The Complete 1850
Census of Gaston County, North
Carolina, $16, and Gaston
County, North Carolina:
Marriage Bonds and Licenses,
1848-1888, by Libby Goodnight,
Linda Bell, and Robert Carpenter,
$18. Also available are Historical
Society calendars from 1996 to
2007 for $3 each. For orders, add
$5 shipping and handling to the
book prices and write to William
N. Craig, Publications Chairman,
GCHS, 315 Union New Hope
Road, Gastonia, N.C. 28056.
GATES COUNTY HISTORICAL SO-CIETY:
Forgotten Gates: The
Historical Architecture of a
Rural North Carolina County,
by Tom Butchko, $40, plus $4
shipping; Carlton Morris Writes:
1957-58, featuring human inter-est
stories written by Morris when
he was editor of Gates County
Index, $20, plus $4 shipping.
Order from E. Seiling, P.O. Box 98,
Gates, N.C. 27937.
THE GOVERNOR CHARLES B.
AYCOCK STATE HISTORIC SITE:
Jesse Aycock, His Descendants,
Revolutionary War Soldier,
$15, plus $5 for shipping; Eagles
On Their Buttons: A Black
Infantry Regiment In the Civil
War, $35, plus $5 shipping; and a
Teacher Packet, a reproducible
54-page soft cover designed to
teach the history of Governor
Aycock at the fourth-grade level.
Copies are $4.75, plus $3 ship-ping.
Call (919) 242-5581, or write
Aycock Birthplace, P.O. Box 207,
Fremont, N.C. 27830.
GREENE COUNTY MUSEUM:
History of Greene County,
North Carolina, by James M.
Creech, (1979 ed., hardback
reprint,) $25, add $5 for shipping
and handling; Greene County
Cemetery Inscriptions, 1750-
1970, by Mary Virginia
Kilpatrick, $55 and the following
books by William L. “Bill” Murphy,
Jr: Greene County 1860 Census,
$30; Dobbs County Bible
Records, Volumes 1-3, $35 for
each volume; Dobbs County
Bible Records, Volume 4 -5, $40
for each volume; Dobbs County
Entries and Warrants, 1741-
1757, $25; Dobbs County Crown
Patents, 1759-1775, $30; Dobbs
County 1780 Tax Lists (2 Lists,
1 Book) $25; Entries of Claims
for Land within the County of
Dobbs, 1778-1790, $30; Entries of
Claims for Land within the
County of Glasgow, 1790-1797,
$25; Entries of Claims for Land
within the County of Lenoir,
1792-1795, $20; Entries of
Claims for Land within the
County of Wayne, 1780-1795,
$35; Genealogical Abstracts of
Greene County Deeds, 1776-
1860, $40; Greene County 1816
Tax List, $25; Greene County
1820 Census, $25; Greene County
1830 Census, $30; Greene County
1840 Census, $30; Greene County
1850 Census, $30; Greene
County Estate Records, 1839-
1845, $35; Greene County
Cemetery Records, $35; Lenoir
County 1844 Tax List, $25.
Shipping and handling costs $3
for the first book, $1.25 each
additional book for Kilpatrick and
Murphy. For orders, write Greene
County Museum, PO Box 266,
Snow Hill, NC 28580, call or fax
(252) 747-1999, or email
greenemuseum@hotmail.com.
THE GREENSBORO HISTORICAL
MUSEUM is selling The Beat
Goes On, by retired reporter Jim
Schlosser, for $25. The book features
100 columns that Schlosser wrote
between 1968 and 2007 and range
from the offbeat to the historically
significant. The museum is also
selling Once Upon a City:
Greensboro, North Carolina’s
Second Century, by Howard
Covington, for $24.95. This
narrative history, told through the
people who helped shaped the
city, traces the city’s development
from just before the 1920s to the
start of the twenty-first century.
The museum is also now selling
Mid Life, Mid Century, Mid
South, by Virginia F. Zenke.
Zenke, who worked as an interior
designer and also became involved
in historic preservation, describes
her experiences in the mid-20th
century. Cost: $22.50. The mu-seum
is also selling Greensboro:
A Chosen Center by Gayle Fripp,
Guilford County’s official histo-rian.
This illustration-rich narra-tive
provides a chronological his-tory
of the Gate City from prehis-tory
to 2000. The work covers a
broad range of topics to capture
Greensboro’s cultural, economic,
political and social history. Cost:
$32.95. For more information, call
(336) 373-2949.
THE HENDERSON COUNTY
GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
SOCIETY, INC.: Henderson
County Heritage, Vol. I,
(reprinted 2003) $55; Henderson
County Heritage, Vol. II, $45
(add $8 shipping for the first book
and $4 for each additional book);
Index to Henderson County,
N.C. Births, 1914-1942, $50;
Index to Henderson County,
N.C. Deaths, 1914-1956, $28;
Henderson County: NC WWI
Draft Registrations, $28; The
Story of Henderson County, by
Sadie Patton, $37.50; Postmarks:
A History of Henderson
County, North Carolina, 1797-
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
1968 (a history of the early post
offices, roads, communities and
families of the Henderson County
area) $28; A Brief History of the
Black Presence in Henderson
County, $20; Sketches of Polk
County, by Sadie Patton, $27.50;
and Polk County Cemetery
Book, $33.50 (add $3.50 shipping
for each). North Carolina resi-dents
add 6.75% sales tax. Send
orders to HCGHS, 400 N. Main
Street, Hendersonville, N.C. 28792,
or e-mail hcghs@bellsouth.net.
Various census records for Hender-son,
Polk, Transylvania, and
McDowell Counties are also avail-able.
Please call (828) 693-1531,
visit www.hcghs.com, or email for
availability and prices.
THE HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCI-ETY:
From Tavern to Town
Revisited: An Architectural
History of Hickory, North
Carolina, by Albert Keiser, Jr.
and Angela May. In addition to
tracing how Hickory grew from a
stagecoach stop to one of the
state’s largest economic centers,
this book also details the history
and legacy of historic preservation
in Hickory. Cost: $24.95, plus tax
and shipping. The society is also
selling Nora’s Dream: Growing
Up in 19th Century Hickory,
North Carolina. Set in the
1880s, the book tells a fact-based,
fictional story of young Nora Chu-ford,
daughter of one of Hickory’s
most prominent pioneer families.
Though the book is aimed toward
children with 2nd to 4th grade
reading levels, it will appeal to all
readers. Included separately in
this illustrated book is a Spanish
language version. Cost: $9.60 for
members, $12 for non-members,
with $3 shipping. Call (828) 322-
4731 or visit www.hickoryland
marks.org.
The HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Heart of the Blue
Ridge: Highlands, North
Carolina, by Randolph P.
Shaffner, the 800-page definitive
history of the town, $25; The
Mountain at the End of the
Trail: A History of Whiteside
Mountain, by Robert Zahner, the
story of one of the world’s oldest
mountains,$12; History and
Cuisine of Highlands Inn, by
Helen Major et al., recipes featured
by Highlands’ first hotel, $5; Good
Reading Material, Mostly Bound
and New: The Hudson Library,
1884-1994, by Randolph P. Shaffner,
a history of one of North Carolina’s
oldest libraries, $14.00 ; and
Highlands, North Carolina . . .
The Early Years, by Angela
Lewis Jenkins, a coffee-table book
containing 227 black-and-white
photographs, $50.00. For information
see the Gift Shop at www.highlands
history.com or e-mail highlandshis
tory@nctv.com.
HIGH POINT MUSEUM: Wish
You Were Here!, by Lee Dowdy,
Mary Lib Joyce and Vince
Wheeler, collection of Old High
Point postcards in a book, $19.95,
plus $3.29 tax and shipping;
When Racing Was Racing,
history of local racers 1940-1959,
by Barbara Taylor, $5.95, plus $2.36
tax and shipping, and Clark’s
Collection of Historical Re-membrances,
(Histories of High
Point), compiled by Mary Lib
Joyce, $35, plus tax and shipping.
Call (336) 885-1859.
HISTORICAL PRESERVATION
GROUP: “The First of Patriots
and the Best of Men:” Richard
Caswell in Public Life, by Clay-ton
Brown Alexander and edited
by Dr. Keats Sparrow. This is the
only book-length study of Caswell,
North Carolina’s first governor.
Cost: $26, plus $6 shipping. For
more information, contact Martha
Marble at 58marble@suddenlink.
net or send a check made out to
the Lenoir County Colonial Com-mission,
Caswell Book, PO Box
1734, Kinston, NC 28503.
HISTORIC FLAT ROCK: Flat
Rock: The Little Charleston of
the Mountains, by Galen
Reuther, about the historic village
of Flat Rock. Read about the history
of this beautiful Western North
Carolina region while viewing a
wonderful collection of period
photographs. This Images of
America book takes you from the
late 1700s to the present. Proceeds
from the book go to Historic Flat
Rock, Inc., to aid them in their
efforts to preserve historic properties
of Flat Rock, N.C. Cost is $23.99,
including shipping. Also available
are packages of note cards depicting
historic homes of Flat Rock. The
note cards are sold in boxes of 10
and include descriptions of each
property, $16.50. Both available
from HFR, P.O. Box 295, Flat
Rock, NC 28731.
HISTORIC HOPE FOUNDATION,
INC.: The Miracle of Hope
Plantation highlights 200 years
of the history of Hope Plantation.
The 24-page commemorative
program is available for $9.95
plus shipping and handling. Write
to 132 Hope House Road, Windsor,
NC 27983, call (252) 794-3140, or
visit www.hopeplantion.org.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
FOUNDATION OF NORTH CARO-LINA/
PRESERVATION NORTH
CAROLINA: North Carolina
Architecture, by Catherine
Bishir and photographs by Tim
Buchman, $59.95; Southern
Built: American Architecture,
Regional Practice, by Catherine
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
Bishir, $35 for members, $42 for
non-members; and Buying Time
for Heritage, by J. Myrick Howard.
This book offers examples of real
estate strategies that can be used
to preserve historic buildings and
costs $20 for members, $25 for
non-members. Prices do not include
tax and shipping. For more infor-mation
visit www.presnc.org,
write to P.O. Box 27644, Raleigh,
N.C. 27611-7644, or call the
HPFNC at 919-832-3652.
HISTORIC STAGVILLE FOUNDA-TION:
Piedmont Plantation:
The Bennehan-Cameron Fam-ily
and Lands in North Carolina,
by Jean Bradley Anderson, $20.
Based on research in the extensive
Bennehan-Cameron family papers,
this book tells in fascinating de-tail
the story of Stagville, the larg-est
antebellum plantation in
North Carolina, and follows the
family history into the 20th century.
For more information, call (919)
620-0120.
HYDE COUNTY HISTORICAL AND
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: Hyde
County, N.C., County Court
Minutes, 1736 Thru 1756, Book
I, by Weynette Parks Haun, soft
cover, 150 pages, indexed, $30,
plus $5 shipping; Hyde County,
N.C., County Court Minutes,
1756 Thru 1785, Book II, by
Weynette Parks Haun, soft cover,
155 pages, indexed, $30, plus $5
shipping; Hyde County, N.C.,
Court Minutes, 1757 Thru 1788,
Book III, by Weynette Parks
Haun, soft cover, 171 pages, in-dexed,
$30, plus $5 shipping;
Hyde County, N.C., Court Min-utes,
1767 Thru 1784, Book IV,
by Weynette Parks Haun, soft
cover, 180 pages, indexed, $30,
plus $5 shipping; Hyde County,
N.C., Court Minutes, 1789 Thru
1797, Book V, by Weynette Parks
Haun, soft cover, 167 pages, in-dexed,
$30, plus $5 shipping;
Hyde County, N.C., Court
Minutes, 1789 Thru 1797, Book
VI, by Weynette Parks Haun, 180
pages, indexed, $30, plus $5 ship-ping;
and Hyde Yesterdays: A
History of Hyde County, by
Morgan Holt Harris, hard cover,
375 pages, name and place indices,
$30, plus $5 shipping. The society
is also offering In Memory of…:
An Index to Hyde County
Cemeteries, by Rebecca Swindell
and R. S. Spencer Jr., including
genealogical information of more
than 6,000 people buried in the
county, $40 plus $5 shipping;
Hyde County History Book, 480
pages with a section on each of
the county’s five townships, $45
plus $6 shipping; The Estates of
Hyde 1700s, by R.S. Spencer,
Jr.,abstracts of 600 folders of loose
Hyde estate records of the 1700s
in the North Carolina Archives,
indexed, $25 plus $5 shipping;
Hyde Remembers: Historic
Bible and Family Records of
Hyde County, North Carolina,
by R. S. Spencer, Jr., record of 365
Bibles and family records, $30
plus $5 shipping; The 1850 Cen-sus
of Hyde County, North
Carolina, a compilation of all
census schedules taken in 1850,
abstracted and indexed by Seth D.
and Sandra S. Carawan, $30 plus
$5 shipping; The 1900 Census of
Hyde County, North Caro-lina,
by Crestena Jennings Oak-ley,
$30 plus $5 shipping; The 1910
Census of Hyde County, North
Carolina, by Crestena Jennings
Oakley, $30 plus $5 shipping;
Hyde County, North Carolina
Record of Deeds A, 1736-1762,
abstracted and indexed by Allen
Wilkinson Hart Norris, includes
general, Negro, occupation, place
name, and women’s Christian
name indices, $25 plus $5 ship-ping;
Hyde County, North Caro-lina
Record of Deeds B, 1762-
1783, abstracted and indexed by
Allen Wilkinson Hart Norris and
edited by Betty S. Mann and Ellen
A. Williams, includes births, buri-als,
marriages as well as frag-mented
deeds, with general, In-dian,
Negro, occupation, place
name, and women’s Christian
name indices, $25 plus $5 ship-ping;
In the Name of God,
Amen! Abstracts of Hyde
County, North Carolina Wills
Probate 1709 through 1775, by
Ellen A. Williams, with full name
index, Negro index, and place
name index, $30 plus $5 shipping;
In the Name of God, Amen! Ab-stracts
of Hyde County, North
Carolina Wills Probate 1776 to
May Court 1819, Book II, by
Ellen A. Williams, with general
name index, Negro index, occupa-tion
index, Christian name index,
place name index, $30 plus $5
shipping; Hidden Ancestors:
Abstract of Bastardy Papers
and Selected Court Minutes
Hyde County, North Carolina
1740-1896, abstracted by
Crestena Jennings Oakley, edited
and indexed by Ellen A. Williams,
$25 plus $5 shipping; Hyde
County (NC) Land Divisions in
the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries, by Richard B. Lupton,
$35 plus $5 shipping; and Land-marks
of Hyde County, North
Carolina: The Mainland and
Ocracoke Island, a 250-page
hardcover book that traces the
county’s development in well-illustrated
historical and architec-tural
essays followed by an inven-tory
that profiles hundreds of
buildings, $55, plus $6 shipping.
Back issues of High Tides, a
semi-annual journal of the society,
cost $10 each plus $3 shipping per
issue, with 10 or more issues costing
$8 each plus $2 shipping per issue.
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
Please note that a 6.75% sales tax
will be added to all purchases. To
order, mail requests to R. S. Spencer,
Inc., PO Box 159, Englehard, NC
27824.
THE JOHNSTON COUNTY HERI-TAGE
CENTER: Family Matters:
Homage to July, The Slave
Girl, by Shelby Stephenson, $14.
Poet and professor Stephenson
based this work on slave records
held at the Heritage Center. Images
of America: Clayton, compiled
by Pamela Baumgartner and
Todd Johnson, $19.99. African-
American Education in Johns-ton
County, by Joan Jones, Elsie
Collins, and Carolyn Ennis, $15.
Focusing on the years 1869 to
1969, this booklet includes sections
on African American teachers,
principals, and early schools.
Johnston County: Its History
Since 1746, by Thomas J. Lassiter
& T. Wingate Lassiter. This narra-tive
history is by two former editors
of The Smithfield Herald and is
available for $15 plus tax and
shipping. Visit www.johnstonnc/
heritage/giftshop, or call (919)
934-2836.
LOWER CAPE FEAR HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Historic Wilmington
and the Lower Cape Fear: An
Illustrated History, by Dr. Chris
Fonvielle, $49.95; The Bank of
Cape Fear of Wilmington,
North Carolina, by Robert
Neale, $16.05; Stories Old and
New of the Cape Fear Region,
as told by Louis T. Moore, $16.05;
Salt, That Necessary Article,
by Isabel M. Williams and Leora
H. McEachern, $8.50; Harnett,
Hooper & Howe: Revolutionary
Leaders of the Lower Cape
Fear, by Alan D. Watson, Dennis
R. Lawson, and Donald R. Lennon,
$21.35; Marvelous Old Mansion
and Other Southern Treasures,
by Sylvia Higgenbotham, $18.15;
Wilmington Through the Lens
of Louis T. Moore, by Susan Tay-lor
Block, $48.15; and Modern
Recipes of Historic Wilmington,
by Ann Hertzler, $21.40. All prices
include tax; $5 per book shipping.
Call (910) 762-0492, visit
www.latimerhouse. org, or write
LCFHS, 126 South 3rd St., Wil-mington,
NC 28401.
MACON COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: The Heritage of
Macon County, Volume II,
$65.58, including tax and shipping;
and Cherokee Indian Lore and
Smoky Mountain Stories, a 112-
page book which includes infor-mation
about Macon County’s
history and its founding fathers,
the Silers, $9.59, including shipping.
Downtown Discovery Hike
Franklin N.C. features historical
information and photographs of
Franklin in a format of brief
explanations, activities, puzzles,
games, and thought-provoking
questions for children and adults.
This publication costs $6.12,
including shipping. Write to the
MCHS, 36 W. Main Street, Frank-lin,
NC 28734, or call 828-524-9758.
MARTIN COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Martin County,
North Carolina – Abstracts of
Deed Books A, 1774-1787, lists
more than 900 deeds with index,
including names, place names,
Negroes, 130 pages for $25, plus
tax; Martin County, North
Carolina: Abstracts of Deed
Books B & C, 1787-1801, lists
1600 deeds with index, including
names, place names, Negroes, 170
pages for $35, plus tax; Martin
County, North Carolina:
Abstracts of Deed Books D & E,
1802-1810, lists over 893 deeds
with index, including names,
places, African Americans, 137
pages for $30, plus tax. Get all
three volumes of Deed Abstracts
for $75.00, plus tax. Martin
County, North Carolina:
Abstracts of Will Books 1 & 2,
1774-1868, lists more than 800
wills abstracted with an index of
approximately 6000 entries,
including names and place names,
240 pages for $35, plus tax;
Martin County, North
Carolina: Abstracts of Will
Books 3 & 4, 1868-1910, lists
approximately 600 wills
abstracted with few place names
included but over 2400 entries of
names in the index, 110 pages for
$20, plus tax. Get both volumes of
Abstract of Wills Books for $50,
plus tax. Martin County
Heritage, North Carolina, lists
over 1100 family, church and
community histories with pictures,
indexed with over 40,000 entries,
878 pages, $60, plus tax; Martin
County History, Volume I, traces
the history of the formation of
Martin County, the townships,
and towns. Records of prominent
people, county officials, newspapers
and other subjects are included.
This 337-page publication costs $35,
plus tax. Martin County History,
Volume II, gives reviews of
transportation, agriculture,
industry, and accommodations,
including “ordinaries” and other
subjects, 364 pages, $35, plus tax;
Religion and Education in
Martin County, 1774-1974, by
Francis M. Manning and W.H.
Booker, contains over 140 church
histories, lists of schools and
instructors, and many pictures.
The 331-page hard cover is
available for $35.00, including
tax. A three-volume set including
Religion and Education in Martin
County and Martin County History,
Vol. I and II sells for $90 plus tax.
Fort Branch and the Defense
of the Roanoke Valley, 1862-
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1865, is a research report
presented to the Fort Branch
Battlefield Commission by Philip
Shiman in 1990 and includes a
history of Fort Branch, footnoted,
with maps and illustrations, 100
pages, $16, plus tax; Hugh Smith-wick
Descendants, by William
Doub Bennett chronicles the
Smithwick family and also
includes more than 300 family
histories written by contributors,
500 pages, $50, plus tax; Martin
County Architectural Heritage:
The Historic Structures of a
Rural North Carolina County,
by Thomas R. Butchko, traces the
architectural heritage of the
county from 1700 until 1946. Some
500 photographs trace the county’s
building forms, traditions, and
styles. The book is a comprehensive
study of the history of dwellings,
farm structures, commercial
buildings, churches, schools,
industries, and the people
associated with them. Available
for $60, plus $5 shipping. Also
available are Martin County:
Images of America, by Fred W.
Harrison, Jr., has 128 pages of
historic photographs depicting the
life and times of Martin County,
$20.13; Autobiographical
Sketch of Asa Biggs: Written
March 1865, $15 plus shipping
and handling; Wynne Genealogy
(includes Win, Winn, Wynn,
Wynns, and Wynne), $45 plus tax;
Martin County’s Historic
Churches, listing churches on the
National Register and in National
Historic Districts, $10 plus shipping;
and The Historic Architecture
of Hamilton, North Carolina,
$10 plus shipping. Write to P. O.
Box 468, Williamston, N.C. 27892
THE MECKLENBURG HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION: A Life in Ante-bellum
Charlotte: The Private
Journal of Sarah Frew David-son,
1837, edited by Karen
McConnell, Janet Dyer, and Ann
Williams, with a forward by Mary
Kratt, and published by The His-tory
Press, Charleston SC. This is
a transcription of Sarah Davidson’s
Journal for 1837, with additional
historic information written by
the editors. 1837 was a pivotal
year in the history of North Caro-lina
with the development of the
gold mining industry and the
construction of the first branch of
the US Mint, in Charlotte. Other
events described include the
education of slave children and
Sarah’s religious introspection
and commitment. The original
Journal is held in the Rare Book
and Manuscript Collection of the
J. Murrey Atkins Library at
UNCC. The book sells for $24.00
including tax, handling and
shipping. Chain of Error and
the Mecklenburg Declarations
of Independence by V. V.
McNitt, republished by the MHA
with a new introduction and Brief
Sketches of the signers added.
This is a closely reasoned and
thorough description of the two
declarations of May 20 & May
31,1775 which were the earliest
declarations of independence from
Great Britain in the American
colonies. The book sells for $28.50,
including tax & shipping. Your
Affectionate Daughter, Isabella,
by Ann Williams, published by
Bright Mountain Books, Asheville,
is the story of Isabella Torrance,
preserved through letters and
other records now held in the
Rare Book and Manuscript Collec-tion
of the J. Murrey Atkins Library
at UNCC. The story is written
from the points of view of those
who lived it and told in the
language they spoke. It tells the
story of growing up on a wealthy
antebellum plantation in Mecklen-burg
County and at the Salem
Female Boarding School; of pioneer-ing
in primitive conditions on the
Mississippi frontier; and of Isabella’s
return to Mecklenburg as a young
widow with a small child. This
book sells for $21.50, including
tax & shipping. To order these
books, send your check and mailing
instructions to The MHA, PO Box
35032, Charlotte, NC 28235.
MOORE COUNTY HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION: Miscellaneous
Ancient Records of Moore
County, by Rassie E. Wicker,
$19.95; Namesake: Alfred
Moore, Soldier and Jurist,
1775-1810, by Robert Mason,
$9.95; Young Southern Pines,
by Helen G. Huttenhour, $19.95;
Plain-Style: The Work of 18th
and 19th Century Craftsmen in
Moore County, North Carolina,
$8.95; The County of Moore,
1747-1847, by Blackwell Robinson,
$14.95; Errata and Addenda
(for above) by Rassie E. Wicker,
edited by J. Atwood Whitman
$1.95; The Story of Moore
County, by Manly Wade Wellman,
$14.95; and The County of
Moore 1847-1947, by Manly
Wade Wellman, $14.95. Sand in
My Shoes (332 pages, soft cover),
by Catharine Ball Ripley, first
published in 1931, tells of a young
woman’s adventures and misad-ventures
in trying to establish a
peach orchard in the Sandhills in
the 1920s and is available for
$14.95. Also available are My Pee
Dee River Hills (225 pages, soft
cover), by Chris Florance, a book
based upon the early life of the
author, who grew up in the Sand-hills;
$14.95; Moore County:
Images of America by Richard J.
Schloegl, $16.99; Patterns in
Sand, by Meade Seawell, $9.95;
and Tale of a Tar Heel Town,
by Meade Seawell, $5. Larry
Koster’s recent publication, More
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Moore County History, won the
Willie Parker Peace History Book
Award from the N.C. Society of
Historians. More Moore County
History is available at the Shaw
House Bookshop for $9.95. Please
add 7% tax plus $2.00 per book
shipping and mail to MCHA, PO
Box 324, Southern Pines, NC
28388 or visit www.moorehistory.
com, or call 910-692-2051.
MOUNT AIRY MUSEUM OF
REGIONAL HISTORY: Surry
County Soldiers in the Civil
War, by Hester Bartlett Jackson,
contains records and personal
writings of Civil War soldiers, soft
cover, 465 pages, $30, including
tax and shipping; Surry County
Heritage – North Carolina Vol.
II, contains family histories, hard
cover, 514 pages, $64, including
tax and shipping; and A Portion
of My Life, by William Norman,
diary written while a prisoner on
Johnson Island during the Civil
War, hard cover, $30, including
tax and shipping. MAMRH, 300
North Main Street, Mount Airy,
N.C. 27030.
MURFREESBORO HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION: Trial Separation:
Murfreesboro N.C. and The
Civil War; Murfreesboro N.C.
and the Founding of the
American Republic (1608-
1781); and Murfreesboro N.C.
and the Great Intracoastal
Waterway 1786-1814, by Thomas
C. Parramore, all paper covers,
$15 each; The Gatling Aeroplane
of 1873, America’s First Air-plane,
by Thomas C. Parramore,
paper cover for $7; Legends and
Myths of North Carolina’s
Roanoke Chowan Area, by F.
Roy Johnson, hard cover for $15;
The Peanut Story; The Fabled
Doctor Jim Jordan; Volume I-The
Tuscaroras: Mythology,
Medicine, and Culture; Volume
II: The Tuscaroras: History,
Tradition, and Culture all by F.
Roy Johnson for $15 each;
Murfreesboro, NC: Cradle of
Titans and Murfreesboro, NC,
and the Roots of Nat Turner’s
Revolt by Thomas C. Parramore
for $15 each; A History of the
Riddick Plantation of Hertford
County, NC, by Frank Harris
(paperback) for $15; and The
Walking Tour Booklet for $5.00.
Please add $3 shipping and handling
for each book and NC sales tax of
7%. MHA, PO Box 3 Murfreesboro,
N.C. 27855 Please call (252) 398-
5922.
THE NORTH CAROLINA PRESBY-TERIAN
HISTORICAL SOCIETY has
reprinted a 1964 speech by Dr.
Harold J. Dudley entitled “Toryism
in North Carolina.” A reprint is
available for $2; contact Sally
MacLeod Owens at 919-835-0920
to order a copy.
OCRACOKE PRESERVATION SOCI-ETY:
The Society has a number of
books and videos on Ocracoke
history and the local dialect,
Ocracoke Brogue. For more infor-mation,
call 252-928-7375; e-mail
giftshop@ocracokepreservation.org;
write to the OPS, P.O. Box 1240,
Ocracoke, N.C. 27960; or visit
www.ocracokepreservation.org.
ONSLOW COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Onslow County Court
Minutes, Vol. I (1732-1743),
Vol. II (1744-1754), Vol. III
(1755-1765), and Vol. IV (1766-
1775), $17.50 each; The Heritage
of Onslow County, North Caro-lina,
hard cover, contains family
histories, a county history presented
through old photographs and
newspaper articles, a pictorial
honor section, and a section
dealing with the federal govern-ment’s
1941 acquisition of land for
the Marine Corps bases of Camp
Lejeune and New River Air Sta-tion,
$51.73, plus tax and ship-ping.
Also available are Markers
of Time: Cemeteries of Onslow
County, soft cover volumes for
$24, including tax and shipping;
and The Battle of New River, by
L. J. Kimball, soft cover, $20,
including tax and shipping.
Contact the OCHS, P.O. Box
5203, Jacksonville, N.C. 28540.
PERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Person County Heri-tage,
Vols. I,. II, & III, $50 each
plus $3.50 each for shipping;
Reminiscences for $10 plus
$3.50 shipping; Index for Remi-niscences
for $5 plus $2.50 ship-ping;
and Penelope’s Papers for
$15 plus $3.50 shipping. Please
add 7% sales tax. Send orders to
PCHS, P.O. Box 887, Roxboro, N.C.
27573 or call 336-597-3134.
THE PITT COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Chronicles of Pitt
County, North Carolina (2003
reprint of 1982 edition), $74.90,
including tax, plus $10 shipping;
Chronicles of Pitt County,
North Carolina—Volume II,
$74.90, including tax, plus $10
shipping; Historic Architecture
of Pitt County, $42.80, including
tax, plus $8 shipping; Cemetery
Survey of Pitt County, North
Carolina, $50, including tax,
plus $10 shipping. For more infor-mation,
contact Sandra Hunsucker
at (252) 355-2149.
PRESERVATION DURHAM is offer-ing
Remembering Durham: The
Way We Were, by Mena Webb, a
compilation of her Durham Sun
and Durham Morning Herald
columns between 1989 and 1992,
$26; East Durham Pattern
Book, a valuable resource for
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
renovators, offering many ideas
for restoring and renovating
vernacular American homes of the
early 20th century, $15; Durham
County: A History of Durham
County, North Carolina, by
Jean Anderson, a sweeping history
of Durham County, integrating
the stories of well-known figures
with those of ordinary men and
women, black and white, to create
a complex but fascinating portrait
of Durham’s economic, political,
social, and labor history, $41; and
The Durham Record, by Jean
Anderson and J. B. Flowers, eds.
This book features a collection of
articles on remarkable people
from Durham’s history including:
“William Johnston: Eighteenth-
Century Entrepreneur,” by William
S. Powell, “South Lowell Male
Academy and Its First Headmaster,”
by Elizabeth Anderson Persons,
“Lillian Baker Griggs: Pioneer
Librarian,” by Betty Irene Young,
and “Durham’s Early Lutherans,”
by Doris Tilley, $7. Also available
are Durham: A Bull City Story,
by Jim Wise, $27; Durham,
North Carolina: A Postcard
History, by Stephen Massengill,
$21; Durham: A Pictorial His-tory,
by Joel and Frank Kostyu,
$27, and 1891 Bird’s Eye View
Map of Durham, 24” x 13”, $11.
For more information, or to order,
call the HPSD at 919-682-3036, or
send an email to info@preservation
durham.org.
THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF
CHAPEL HILL: The Town and
Gown Architecture of Chapel
Hill, 1795-1975. Written by
architectural historian and UNC
alumna Dr. Ruth Little, this 325-
page book offers an architectural
and historical survey of Chapel Hill
and features 274 photographs. $30
for members and $35 for non-members.
Please add 7% sales tax
and $7 shipping for each book. To
order, call 919-942-7818.
THE RAILROAD HOUSE ASSOCIA-TION
is offering The Men of
Endor: Their Works and
Times, 1861-1876, by Robert A.
Weisner and edited by Lynn
Veach Sadler, $25 plus $5 shipping
and handling; Images of America:
Sanford and Lee County, by
Jimmy Haire and W. W. Seymore,
Jr., $28, which includes tax and
shipping; and In Celebration of
the 2007 Centennial of Lee
County, edited by Lynn Veach
Sadler, containing a collection of
historical articles and creative
works, $20 plus $5 shipping and
handling. To order, please send
your orders to the Railroad House
Association Inc., PO Box 1023,
Sanford, NC 27331-1023, Attention:
Jane Barringer Book Sale. The
association notes that its best-selling
book The History and
Architecture of Lee County,
North Carolina, by J. Daniel
Pezzoni, is now out of print but
can occasionally be found for sale
on the internet.
RALEIGH HISTORIC DISTRICTS
COMMISSION: Culture Town:
Life in Raleigh’s African
American Communities, by
Linda Simons-Henry (oral history)
and Linda Harris Edmisten
(architectural history), utilizes
oral history and architectural
survey to show contributions
made by eight communities to
Raleigh’s cultural development.
Copies are available for $35 from
the Raleigh Historic Districts
Commission office-One Exchange
Plaza, Ste. 300, Raleigh, NC, or by
mail for $38.50 (includes ship-ping)
from PO Box 829, Century
Station, Raleigh, NC 27602.
RICHMOND COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: The Architectural
History of Richmond County,
$80 (tax and shipping included).
Featuring 357 photographs, this
book features properties of histori-cal
significance and ranges in
time from the Pee Dee Indian Cul-ture
to the present. No Ordinary
Lives: A History of Richmond
County from 1750-1900 by John
Hutchinson, $45. Write to the
RCHS, PO Box 1763, Rocking-ham,
NC 28380, or call (910) 895-
1660.
SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA
ARCHIVISTS: Archival & Manu-script
Repositories in North
Carolina: A Directory (1992)
(2nd publishing). This 149-page
directory identifies and describes
133 repositories in North Carolina
with archival or manuscript hold-ings.
Member price is $17, includes
shipping; non-member price is
$22, includes shipping. Make
checks payable to Margaret M.
Hofmann, P.O. Box 446, Roanoke
Rapids, NC 27870.
SOUTHPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY:
Of Home and the River: South-port
Stories from the Civil War
to the Present, $20 for members,
$24 for non-members. Architec-ture
of Southport, by Carl
Lounsbury, second printing, 62-
page soft cover, $7; Bald Head, by
David Stick, $17; Cap’n
Charlie and the Lights of the
Lower Cape Fear, by Ethel
Herring, revised edition, $10.75;
The Cemeteries of Southport,
compiled by Dorcas W. Schmidt,
94-page soft cover, $8.50; Classic
Southport Cooking, by Lewis J.
Hardee, Jr., 409-page hard cover
for $22; Fort Caswell in War
and Peace, by Ethel Herring and
Carolee Williams, 138-page hard
cover, $18.25; Guns for Cotton,
by Thomas Boaz, $10.75; A History
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
of Fort Johnston, by Wilson
Angley, 150-page soft cover, $6;
Joshua’s Dream, by Susan S.
Carson, 168-page soft cover, $10;
Joshua’s Legacy, by Susan S.
Carson and Jon Lewis, $10; Lelia
Jane, A Very Gentle Lady, by
Susie Carson and Larry Maisel,
$14; Long Beach, A North
Carolina Town: Its Origin and
History, by Wolfgang Furstenau,
364-page hard cover, $19.25;
Reminiscences of Wilmington
and Smithville-Southport
1848-1900, by Walter G. Curtis,
$9; Southport Secrets, compiled
by Donald K. Johnson, 88-page
soft cover, $8; Southport
(Smithville): A Chronology,
Volume II, 1878-1920, $6; Volume
III, 1920-1940, 248-page soft
cover, $6; Volume IV, 1940-1970,
$6; all volumes by Bill Reaves. All
prices include tax. Add $3 ship-ping
for each book. P.O. Box
10014, Southport, N.C. 28461-
0014. For information, call (910)
457-0579, or visit www.south
porthistoricalsociety.com.
STANLY COUNTY MUSEUM:
Images of America: Stanly
County, by Douglas Buchanan, a
pictorial history of the county,
$18.99; The Historic Stanly
County Coloring Book, featuring
22 historic county scenes, $2.50;
Stanly County: The Architec-tural
Legacy of a Rural North
Carolina County, by Donna
Dodenhoff, $45. For more infor-mation
contact the SCM, 245 E.
Main St., Albemarle, N.C. 28001,
(704) 986-3777.
TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY JOINT
HISTORICAL PRESERVATION
COMMISSION: Transylvania:
The Architectural History of a
Mountain County, $47.85, includ-ing
tax. Transylvania County
Planning Department, P.O. Box
1578, Brevard, N.C. 28712, or call
(828) 884-3205.
WACHOVIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY:
Moravians in Europe and
America 1415-1865: Hidden
Seed and Harvest, by Chester S.
Davis, tells the story from its
beginning in a hidden seed of believ-ers
forced from their homes in
Bohemia and Moravia during the
wars of the Counter Reformation,
$8.31, includes tax & shipping.
The Wachovia Historical Soci-ety:
1895-1995, by Bradford L.
Rauschenberg, $33.80, includes
tax & shipping; Salem Remem-brances,
$11.49, includes tax &
shipping. Contact the WHS, P.O.
Box 20803, Winston-Salem, N.C.
27120.
WARREN COUNTY HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION: The Architecture
of Warren County, North Caro-lina,
by Kenneth McFarland. The
cost is $45.00 plus $3.00 shipping.
WCHA, PO Box 441 Warrenton,
N.C. 25789. Copies may also be
purchased at the North Carolina
Museum of History gift shop.
THE WAYNE COUNTY HISTORI-CAL
MUSEUM: After Sherman’s
March: Goldsboro at the End
of the Civil War, by Emily Weil,
$25 (plus tax) and $5 shipping.
Based on letters, diaries, and
other artifacts along with family
stories, this creative non-fiction
book describes the arrival of
Sherman and Union troops in
Goldsboro; the end of the Civil
War; and life during Reconstruc-tion
in this small Southern
town.To order, call (919) 734-
5023. Wayne County Cemeter-ies,
Vol. II, $50 (plus 6.75% tax
and $5 shipping). This 400-page
volume includes cemeteries in
New Hope, Pikeville, Saulston,
and Stoney Creek. To order this
volume, make checks payable to
Old Dobbs Genealogical Society,
PO Box 665, Goldsboro, NC
27533-0665.
WHALEHEAD CLUB: The Whale-head
Club: A Legacy Preserved,
by Mollie Isaacs. A visual tour of
the Whalehead Club, the restored
residence of Mr. and Mrs. E.C.
Knight, Jr., on the Outer Banks of
North Carolina. Virginian-Pilot
critic, Mary Ellen Riddle praised
the publication by saying the book
“integrates information on the
background of the club with a
beautifully written and stimulat-ing
explanation of the Art Nouveau
Movement.” Proceeds from the
sale of the book support the
Whalehead Club and Currituck
Heritage Park. The Whalehead
Club: Reflections of Currituck
Heritage, by Susan Joy Davis.
More than two centuries of historic
events that reflect the spirited
legacy of the Whalehead Club and
Currituck Heritage are poignantly
depicted in this 160-page book by
first time author, Susan Davis.
Period photos and a brilliant time
table of national historic events
paired with the Whalehead Club’s
contributions to those events
makes this book a must read! For
more information, please contact
the Whalehead Club at (252) 453-
9040, ext. 2 or visit www.whale
headclub.org
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION/
SMITH-MCDOWELL HOUSE
MUSEUM: An Architect and His
Times: Richard Sharp Smith,
A Retrospective. This attractive
48-page booklet was issued in
conjunction with an award-winning
special exhibit about
Smith and features rare photo-graphs
and architectural drawings
of his designs, $4.00, includes tax;
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
shipping $2 for the first copy, $1
for each additional copy; Civil
War Dead from Buncombe
County, North Carolina: 1861-
1864, by Eric Emory. This publica-tion
lists the names of the Union
and Confederate soldiers from
Buncombe County who died during
the Civil War. Only one copy left;
$10, with $3 shipping. Edward
Buncombe and Buncombe
County, by Colonel Paul A. Rock-well
with assistance of Dix Sars-field.
This 32-page booklet covers
the life and death of Colonel
Buncombe and describes his estate
in Tyrell County, N.C. Cost $1,
includes tax; shipping is $2 for the
first copy, $1 for each additional
copy; Haunted Asheville, by
Joshua P. Warren. This soft-cover
book is the only collection of stories
about Asheville’s spookiest places
and costs $14.95, including tax;
shipping is $4. For inquiries, write
to the Western North Carolina
Historical Association/Smith-
McDowell House Museum, 283
Victoria Rd., Asheville, NC 28801,
or email smh@wnchistory.org.
The HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS
SECTION of the N.C. Office of
Archives and History offers six
new publications: Just Yester-day:
North Carolina People
and Places, is a collection of 191
photographs spanning the fifty-year
career of Bruce Roberts, first
director of photography for South-ern
Living Magazine. The images
are grouped by geographical region
and commentary by the photogra-pher
is included. Cost: $34.69.
Liberty and Freedom: North
Carolina’s Tour of the Bill of
Rights, is an anthology of seven
essays commemorating the return
of North Carolina’s copy of the
Bill of Rights to the state. The
essayists recount the history of
the document and discuss specific
rights guaranteed in the Bill of
Rights. Cost: $24.01. North
Carolina Troops, 1861–1865: A
Roster, Volume XVI, Thomas’s
Legion, edited by Matthew M.
Brown and Michael W. Coffey,
presents an authoritative 247-page
history of Thomas’s Legion, a mili-tary
unit significant for the large
number of Cherokee Indians who
served in its ranks. The volume
also includes the service records of
those men and a detailed index.
Cost: $63.38. Randolph County:
A Brief History, by L. Barron
Mills Jr., traces the history of
Randolph County from its pre-colonial
native American habitation
through European settlement in
the 18th century, growing indus-trialization
in the 19th and 20th
centuries, and its establishment
as a national tourist destination
in the 21st century. Cost: $20.81.
Watering the Sahara: Recollec-tions
of Paul Green from 1894
to 1937, by James R. Spence and
edited by Margaret D. Bauer, is
based on previously unpublished
interviews with Paul Green and
chronicles the dramatist’s life
from childhood in Harnett County
to service in WWI, the beginnings
of his careers as both educator
and writer, his work as a Holly-wood
screenwriter, and the theater
collaborations that culminated in
the creation of the symphonic
drama The Lost Colony. Cost:
$24.01. Worthy of Record: The
Civil War and Reconstruction
Diaries of Columbus Lafayette
Turner, edited by Kenrick N.
Simpson, documents C. L.
Turner’s Civil War experiences as
a prisoner of war in two Federal
prisons (Fort Delaware and John-son’s
Island) and his service as a
legislator in the General Assembly
in early 1874. The volume includes
well-researched introductions to
the diaries and exhaustive anno-tated
endnotes. Cost: $34.69.
Note: All prices include tax and
shipping.
Order these books from the Histori-cal
Publications Section (N), Office
of Archives and History, 4622 Mail
Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-
4622. For credit card orders call
(919) 733-7442, ext. 0, or access
the Publications Section’s secure
online store at http://nc-historical-publications.
stores.yahoo.net/.
The Historical Publications Section
also publishes the North Carolina
Historical Review. This quarterly
journal offers articles that cover
North Carolina and southern
history from the colonial period to
the present. Each issue also features
numerous reviews of recent books
about state, regional, and national
history as well as an annual bibli-ography
of books on North Caro-lina
subjects or written by North
Carolinians. For more information
contact the editor at annie.miller
@ncdcr.gov.
The Historical Publications Section
offers more than 190 North Caro-lina
books, maps, and document
facsimiles. For a free catalog,
write to the address above; call
(919) 733-7442, ext. 0; or e-mail
Historical.Publications@ncdcr.gov.
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
This annual list shows historical
publications that are available
from members of the Federation of
N.C. Historical Societies. Though
every effort has been made to ensure
the accuracy of this list, please
contact the members listed below to
confirm prices and availability.
ALLEGHANY HISTORICAL-GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETY is selling
History of Alleghany County,
NC 1859-1976 for $45, plus $3
shipping and $3.04 tax (for NC
residents); Alleghany County
Heritage, featuring county, town-ship,
and community histories,
more than 700 family histories,
and photos, for $48 plus $3 shipping
and $3.24 tax Alleghany County
Cemeteries through 1986,
containing burial data from 300
family, church, and community
burial plots, for $15 plus $2.75
shipping and $1.01 tax; Alleghany
Architecture: A Pictorial
Survey, $30 plus $3 shipping and
$2.03 tax; Mary’s Memories, by
Mary Lyon Harless, lifelong
county resident who published the
book in 2000 on the occasion of
her 100th birthday, for $8 plus
$1.50 shipping and $.54 tax; Foot
Prints on the Sands of Time, by
Dr. Aras B. Cox, focusing on the
history of southwestern Virginia
and Northwestern North Carolina,
for $15 plus $2 shipping and $1.01
tax; 1938 Video of Sparta,
North Carolina, featuring
scenes of downtown Sparta, Roar-ing
Gap Fish Hatchery, and the
Alleghany County Agricultural
Fair and scenes from a trip to the
1939 Worlds Fair in New York,
$11 plus $1.50 shipping and $.68
tax; and Recipes that Raised
Us, a memorial cookbook featuring
recipes of friends and family who
have passed away, with proceeds
from the cookbook benefiting the
building project of the Alleghany
County Public Library, for $20,
plus $3 shipping and $1.35 tax or
3 books for $45 plus $7 shipping
plus $3.04 tax. Please note that all
taxes listed are for N.C. residents
only. To order, visit www.sparta
store.com or send a check, payable
to Alleghany Historical-
Genealogical Society, to PO Box
817, Sparta, NC 28675. The society
also notes that Alleghany
County, NC Marriages: 1849-
1900, is available for $20.50 plus
$5 shipping from Heritage Books
at (800) 398-7709.
THE ALLIANCE FOR HISTORIC
HILLSBOROUGH is offering annual
journals published by the Histori-cal
Foundation of Hillsborough
and Orange County. The journals
chronicle the diverse history of
Hillsborough and Orange County,
N.C., through the compilation and
publication of articles by noted
area historians. The volumes are
$10 each or $19.95 for a three
journal collection and are avail-able
through the Alliance at 150
E. King Street, Hillsborough, N.C.
27278, (919) 732-7741. The Burwell
School, which is part of the Alliance,
is offering The Book of Burwell
Students, by Mary Claire Engstrom,
for $17.95. For more information,
call (919) 732-7451.
ANSON COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY, INC., has the following
books available: Cemeteries of
Anson County, Volume I (with
map of county), $50, plus $5 ship-ping;
Cemeteries of Anson
County Volume II, by A. Haynes
Dunlap and others, $40, plus $7
shipping; The History of Anson
County, 1750-1976, by Mary
Louise Medley, $40, plus $5 ship-ping;
Eastview Cemetery,
Wadesboro, N.C., $50, plus $5
shipping; Notes on the Move-ment
of the 14th North Caro-lina
Regiment, by Thomas J.
Watkins, transcribed from the
original with introduction by Jane
P. Cunningham, $12. Send orders
to ACHS, 206 E. Wade St.,
Wadesboro, N.C. 28170.
ASHE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCI-ETY:
Heritage of Ashe County,
Volumes I and II ($80 each, plus
$11.20 tax and shipping); Images
of Ashe County, ($19.99, plus
$3.80 tax and shipping); Ashe
County Revisited, Pictorial Col-lection,
($19.99, plus $3.80 tax
and shipping); Ashe County
Cemetery Records (2 volumes),
$60, plus $9.90 tax and shipping;
and Ashe County Marriage Re-cords
1800-1900, ($30, plus $4.95
tax and shipping). Arthur Fletcher’s
1963 book Ashe County: A History
has been reprinted with a new
preface and expanded index. Call
(336)246-2041 for more information.
To order, contact the Ashe County
Historical Society, Ashe County
Public Library, 148 Library Drive,
West Jefferson, N.C. 28694.
BEAUFORT HISTORICAL ASSOCIA-TION:
Beaufort-by-The-Sea,
Journey Back in Time, by Rick
and Marcie Carroll, $24.95; Beau-fort,
An Album of Memories, by
Jack Dudley, $47.95; Beaufort’s
Old Burying Ground, by Diane
Hardy, Mamre Wilson, and
Marilyn Collins, $18.99; “Kith
and Kin” of Eastern Carteret
County, by Thelma Pake Simpson
and Rebecca Willis Sanders,
$25.00; Carteret County History
and Folklore, by Mary and Gray-den
Paul, $12.99; History of the
Hammock House and Related
Trivia, by Maurice Davis, $12.00;
North Carolina’s Coastal Car-teret
County During the Ameri-can
Revolution, edited by Jean
Bruyere Kell, as a project of the
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
the role Caldwell County people
have played in America’s wars,
$24.95 plus $1.69 tax, with ship-ping
costing $4 for the first copy
and $2 for each additional copy.
For information, call (828) 758-
4004, or e-mail Caldheritmus@aol.
com.
THE CAPE FEAR MUSEUM is sell-ing
A Boat for All Seas: The
Simmons Sea-Skiff, by museum
guest curator David Carnell and
curator Barbara Rowe, $10. The
book reproduces many photographs
and objects included in the
Waves and Currents exhibit.
Available from the CFM, 814
Market Street, Wilmington, N.C.
28401-4731, (910) 798-4350.
CAPITAL AREA PRESERVATION,
INC.: Gleanings from Long Ago,
by Ellen Mordecai, first-hand
remembrances of antebellum
plantation life, $8.50; Raleigh,
North Carolina’s Capital, by
Elizabeth C. Waugh, a chronologi-cal
tour of Raleigh’s historic archi-tecture,
$26.70; and The Historic
Architecture of Wake County,
by Kelly A. Lally, a comprehensive
look at Wake County’s architectural
history. Add $5 for shipping to all
orders. CAPI, PO Box 28072,
Raleigh, N.C. 27611, (919) 833-
6404, www.cappresinc.org
CAROLINAS GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETY: The Heritage of Union
County, North Carolina, 1842-
1992, Volume I, edited by Virginia
Kendrick, is available for $59,
including tax and shipping. The
512-page, hardbound volume is
printed on acid-free paper and
contains 875 family histories. The
society is also offering Volume II,
a 328-page supplement to the first
volume that includes a list of Union
County Confederate soldiers with
a brief biography. The cost is $62,
including tax and shipping. Also
available: Sketches of Monroe
and Union County, by Stack and
Beasley. First published in 1902,
this book is indexed and illustrated
and contains descriptions of natural
resources and business enterprises
as well as interesting profiles of
the townspeople of that era. Cost:
$15.50, including tax and shipping.
To order, contact the society at PO
Box 397, Monroe, NC 28111.
CARTERET COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: A Postal History of
Carteret County, NC, by Charles
Pitt; Growing Up Down East
and Other True Stories, by
Elmo Gaskill, $5.95; Stella: A
Riverside Hamlet, $30, by Lib
Sawyers, $30; Revolution of
Coastal North Carolina, by
Jean Day, $9.95; Ocracoke Album,
by Jack Dudley, $40; Revolution
of Coastal Carolina, by Jean
Day, $9.95; Masons of Carteret
County, by William Mason, $40;
Turning Back the Tide, by Ruth
Barbour, $10.95; Coastal Waters,
by Scott Taylor, $29.85; Rum
Runners, U-Boats, and Hurri-canes,
by Bryan Galecki, $19.95;
South River, by Dollie Carraway,
$55; A Shadow In the Sea, by
Jim W. Bunch, $29.95; Maritime
Reflections, by Sonny William-son
and Stephen Goodwin, $14.50;
History of the Hammock House
and Related Trivia, by Maurice
Davis, $12.50; Postcard History
Series: Carteret County,
$19.99; and The Fulchers of
Carteret County, $30. The
Carteret County Historical Society
is also selling the following books
focusing on Morehead City: Yester-day
and Today, Morehead City
Woman’s Club, $20.00; A Picto-rial
Review of Morehead City,
Morehead City Woman’s Club,
$25.00; Twelve Historic Homes,
Joan Allen, $2.00; Morehead
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Carteret County Bicentennial
Commission, $25.00; Carteret
County During the Civil War,
by Jean Kell, $35.00; Carteret
County Census of 1790, $3.50;
Carteret County Postcard His-tory,
by Linda Sadler and Kevin
Jenkins, $19.95; A Brief History
of Beaufort and Carteret
County, North Carolina, by
Mamre Wilson, $6.00; and Story
of Beaufort, by Mamre Wilson,
$19.99. Tax and shipping will be
added to all items. For more infor-mation,
contact the Beaufort His-torical
Association at (800) 575-
7483 or by email at beauforthistoric
site@earthlink.net.
THE CALDWELL COUNTY HERI-TAGE
MUSEUM: The following
books are available by Matthew C.
Bumgarner, Kirk’s Raiders,
$29.95 for non-members, $23.95
for members; My Face to the
Enemy, $12 for non-members,
$9.60 for members; and The
Watauga and Yadkin River
Railroad, $24.95 for non-members,
$19.95 for members.
Also available are Tom Dooley: A
Wilkes County Legend, by
Karen W. Reynolds, $14.00 for
members and non-members;
Collett Leventhorpe: The English
Confederate, by J. Timothy Cole
and Bradley R. Foley, $35 for non-members,
$30.40 for members,;
the following three books by Michael
C. Hardy, Remembering Avery
County, $19.99 for non-members,
$16 for members, A Short History
of Watauga County, $24.95 for
non-members, $19.95 for members,
and Remembering North Caro-lina
Confederates, $19.99 for
non-members and $16 for mem-bers;
In the Footsteps of Daniel
Boone, by Randall Jones, $11.95
for members and non-members;
and Wars and Rumor of Wars,
by John O. Hawkins, focusing on
Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies, 4610 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4610, (919) 807-7280
Federation web page: www.fnchs.org
Historical Publications from Federation Members
City, Jack Dudley, $44.95; More-head
City on the Waterfront,
Reginald W. Lewis, $19.99; Rodney
Kemp’s Walking Tour of More-head
City, $2.00; The Promised
Land Cookbook, Franklin
Memorial United Methodist
Church, $12.00; Carteret
County, Lynn Salsi and Frances
Eubanks $18.99; Index for Kith
and Kin, indexed by Phil Hast-ings,
$15.00; Post Cards from
Morehead City: 50 Years of
History 1957-2007, $29.95; and
Carteret County Cemetery
Books: Volume I – Beaufort and
East of the Newport River and
Volume II – West of the Newport
River (Also on CD). Please call for
prices on cemetery books and CD.
For orders, contact the History
Place, (252) 247-7533, history-place@
starfishnet.com, or visit
www.thehistoryplace.org.
THE CASWELL COUNTY HISTORI-CAL
ASSOCIATION has the following
books available: When the Past
Refused to Die: A History of
Caswell County, 1777-1977, by
Dr. W.S. Powell; Architectural
Inventory of Caswell County:
The Built Environment of a
Burley and Brightleaf Tobacco
Economy, by Ruth Little-Stokes;
In the Beginning, The
Churches of Caswell County;
Their Highest Potential: An
African American School
Community in the Segregated
South, by Vanessa Siddle Walker;
and The Dan River Book: Odys-sey,
Epic, Guide, by Forest
Altman. For information, call the
Richmond-Miles Museum at (336)
694-4965 between 12 noon and 4
p.m., Tuesday to Friday.
CATAWBA COUNTY HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION is selling George
Rabb: The Civil War Memoir of
a Catawba County Tar Heel,
edited by Rabb’s grandniece,
Rebecca Ikerd Alghrary. This 80-
page book brings to life both the
war’s brutality and its interludes
of mercy. Cost: $18.95. The asso-ciation
is also selling: The Cataw-bans,
Vol. I: Crafters of a North
Carolina County, by Gary R.
Freeze, (424 pages, hard cover,
$35.95); The Catawbans, Vol. II:
Pioneers in Progress, by Gary
R. Freeze (496-page chronicle,
$37.95); Catawba County: An
Architectural History, $25;
Old Wounds, by Steven Shaffer;
Yesterday’s Child by Dorothy
Sigmon Holbrook; and A Glow
from the Lamp, by Ruth Young
Proctor, a memoir about growing
up on a farm near the Catawba-
Burke County border. Visit
www.catawbahistory.org, or call
828-465-0383.
CHATHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION has The Gravesites
of Chatham County, North
Carolina, an alphabetical compi-lation
in two volumes of cemeter-ies
and grave markers by Will and
Audrey Heiser, $35; Chatham
County 1771-1971, edited by
Hadley, Horton and Strowd, $20;
The Architectural Heritage of
Chatham County, North Caro-lina,
by Osborn and Selden-
Sturgill, $35. This inventory has a
description and photographs of
each historic building in the book.
The association also offers The
Land Beneath the Waters, a 35-
minute documentary DVD
describing the history of the New
Hope valley now under the waters
of Jordan Lake, $10; Historical
Buildings of the Central Busi-ness
District, Siler City, by
Wade Hadley, a 30-page booklet,
$8; Siler City, North Carolina
1887-1987, by Wade Hadley,
reprint, 67-pages, $8; The Chat-ham
Railroad, by Robert A.
Wiesner, which traces the 16-year
history of “the railroad that never
was” during the tumultuous years
preceding and during the Civil
War, $10; 1870 Map of Chatham
County by Capt. N. A. Ramsey, a
reproduction that shows land-marks
plus many family locations,
$5; 1874 Map of the Coal Fields
of Chatham, by L. W. Jackson, a
color reproduction, $3; and
Tales Beyond Fried Rabbit:
Chatham’s Historical Heritage:
by Fred J. Vatter, $23.95. This
book is a compilation of articles,
each about an aspect of the county’s
history. Sales tax and shipping
are extra. For order form and
more, visit www.chathamhistory.
org or contact CCHA, P.O. Box 93,
Pittsboro, N.C. 27312.
CHEROKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL
MUSEUM has available The Heri-tage
of Cherokee County,
North Carolina, Volumes I, II,
and III. The volumes contain
family histories written by past
and current residents of the
county and include many old
photographs. Cost: $65 each,
including tax. Shipping is $7 for
each book ordered. Also available
is the hard-bound A Pictorial
History of Cherokee County,
which includes over 500 pictures
and notations relating to Cherokee
County. Cost: $34, including tax &
shipping. Marble and Log: The
History and Architecture of
Cherokee County, by Michael
Ann Williams, is available in soft
cover. It includes photographs,
essays, and an inventory of Chero-kee
County architecture. Cost:
$27, including tax & shipping.
Please make checks payable to the
Cherokee County Historical
Museum, 87 Peachtree St., Murphy,
NC 28906. For further information,
please call (828) 837-6792.
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
CITY OF HIGH POINT PLANNING
AND DEVELOPMENT DEPART-MENT
is selling The Architecture
of High Point North Carolina, by
Benjamin Briggs, $39.99. This
book contains an architectural
history of High Point as well as an
inventory of many of its architec-turally
significant structures. To
order, please call (336) 883-3328.
COOLEEMEE HISTORICAL ASSO-CIATION
has the magazine-format
“Bobbin & Shuttle.” This publi-cation
is dedicated to the collection
and preservation of mill town
stories before they vanish and is
available from the Textile Heri-tage
Center, P.O. Box 667, Coolee-mee,
N.C. 27014. Issues 2-6 are
available for $3 each, with $2
shipping and handling for 1 to 2
copies and $1 shipping and handling
for each additional copy. Bulk
orders of 20 or more are $2 each
plus postage. The association is
also offering Cooleemee: The
Life & Times of a Mill Town, by
Jim Rumley, $40.66, plus $5 ship-ping;
and Saving Our Legacy:
Stories of the Vanishing World
of the Southern Cotton Mill
People: A “How To” Manual, by
Lynn Rumley and Sarah Bryan.
Written for people interested in
starting a mill town preservation
effort, this publication costs
$25,plus $6 shipping and handling.
Please call (336) 284-6040, or visit
www.textileheritage.org.
DAVIE COUNTY HISTORICAL AND
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY is offer-ing
the following: Davie County
… A Brief History, by James
Wall, paper cover, $7.50; The
Daniel, Squire and John
Boone Families in Davie
County, by Wall, Boone, & Martin,
$5; Davie County Marriages
1836-1900, by Nancy K. Murphy,
$25.00; Davie County Marriages
1901-1959, by Nancy K. Murphy,
$25; Davie County Cemeteries,
a two-volume set, $55; 1860
Federal Census: Davie County,
by Murphy and Sain, $17; 1870
Federal Census: Davie County,
by Murphy and Sain, $17; 1880
Federal Census: Davie County,
by Murphy and Sain, $22.50;
Maps: Lagle Land Grant, $6.50;
Hughes Historical, $6.50; 1887
Alderman, $2.50; Postcards (set of
8), $2.50. N.C. residents add 7%
sales tax. Order through the
DCHGS, 371 North Main Street,
Mocksville, N.C. 27028.
DUKE HOMESTEAD STATE HIS-TORIC
SITE: Bull Durham Busi-ness
Bonanza 1866-1940, by Ben
and Snow Roberts, $21.95; The
Dukes of Durham 1865-1929, by
Robert F. Durden, $22.95; Bold
Entrepreneur: A Life of James
B. Duke, by Robert F. Durden,
$24.50. For more information, call
(919) 477-5498. All prices include
tax.
The DUPLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY is selling In Honor of
Duplin County's Vietnam War
Dead. This 46-page books contains
photos, histories, and family
memories of the nineteen Duplin
County men who died in service
during the Vietnam War. Cost:
$20. To order, please write to
DCHS, PO Box 775, Kenansville,
NC 28349.
EDENTON HISTORICAL COMMIS-SION:
Thomas Butchko’s Eden-ton:
An Architectural Portrait,
$35; Edenton, A Portrait in
Words and Pictures, $12; 300
Years in the Life of St. Paul’s,
by Ann Rouse Edwards, $15; and
“Take the Tour” Cookbook, St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church, $17.95.
Please call 252-482-7800.
FEDERAL POINT HISTORIC
PRESERVATION SOCIETY is offering
My Friend the Enemy: The Battle
at Fort Fisher as Recalled by
Colonel Lamb, CSA & General
Curtis, USA, fully illustrated,
$10 each; Carolina Beach: A
Postcard History, by Elaine
Henson, $19.95; Surfing on the
Cape Fear Coast, by Joseph
“Skipper” Funderburg, $29.95;
Carolina Beach: Images and
Icons of a Bygone Era, by D. R.
Norris, $29.95; Carolina Beach:
Friends and Neighbors Remem-bered,
by D. R. Norris, $29.95;
Big Book of the Cape Fear
River, by Claude Jackson, $39.95;
The Wilmington Campaign:
Last Days of Departing Hope, by
Chris E. Fonvielle, (used) $20; and
The Ferries of North Carolina,
by Barbara Brannon, $16.95. For
more information and to order,
please contact the Federal Point
Historical Society at PO Box 623,
Carolina Beach, NC 28428; call
(910) 458-0502; or send an email to
FPHPS@yahoo.com.
FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY:
Millicoma: Biography of a
Pacific Northwestern Forest,
by Arthur V. Smyth, 145 pages
plus photos and maps, $12.95,
plus $4 shipping; and The Con-servation
Diaries of Gifford
Pinchot, by Harold K. Steen; 230
pages plus photos and names index;
$29.95 hard cover or $19.95 soft
cover, plus $4 shipping. Forest
Sustainability: The History,
the Challenge, the Promise, by
Donald W. Floyd, provides a
historical context to the concept
of sustainable forestry, $10.95.
FHS, 701 Vickers Avenue, Durham,
NC 27701, or call (919) 682-9319.
GASTON COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Our Kin, by Miles Hoff-man,
$30; The County of Gaston:
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Federation web page: www.fnchs.org
Historical Publications from Federation Members
Two Centuries of a North
Carolina Region, by Robert
Cope and Manly Wade Wellman,
$10.50; The Complete 1850
Census of Gaston County, North
Carolina, $16, and Gaston
County, North Carolina:
Marriage Bonds and Licenses,
1848-1888, by Libby Goodnight,
Linda Bell, and Robert Carpenter,
$18. Also available are Historical
Society calendars from 1996 to
2007 for $3 each. For orders, add
$5 shipping and handling to the
book prices and write to William
N. Craig, Publications Chairman,
GCHS, 315 Union New Hope
Road, Gastonia, N.C. 28056.
GATES COUNTY HISTORICAL SO-CIETY:
Forgotten Gates: The
Historical Architecture of a
Rural North Carolina County,
by Tom Butchko, $40, plus $4
shipping; Carlton Morris Writes:
1957-58, featuring human inter-est
stories written by Morris when
he was editor of Gates County
Index, $20, plus $4 shipping.
Order from E. Seiling, P.O. Box 98,
Gates, N.C. 27937.
THE GOVERNOR CHARLES B.
AYCOCK STATE HISTORIC SITE:
Jesse Aycock, His Descendants,
Revolutionary War Soldier,
$15, plus $5 for shipping; Eagles
On Their Buttons: A Black
Infantry Regiment In the Civil
War, $35, plus $5 shipping; and a
Teacher Packet, a reproducible
54-page soft cover designed to
teach the history of Governor
Aycock at the fourth-grade level.
Copies are $4.75, plus $3 ship-ping.
Call (919) 242-5581, or write
Aycock Birthplace, P.O. Box 207,
Fremont, N.C. 27830.
GREENE COUNTY MUSEUM:
History of Greene County,
North Carolina, by James M.
Creech, (1979 ed., hardback
reprint,) $25, add $5 for shipping
and handling; Greene County
Cemetery Inscriptions, 1750-
1970, by Mary Virginia
Kilpatrick, $55 and the following
books by William L. “Bill” Murphy,
Jr: Greene County 1860 Census,
$30; Dobbs County Bible
Records, Volumes 1-3, $35 for
each volume; Dobbs County
Bible Records, Volume 4 -5, $40
for each volume; Dobbs County
Entries and Warrants, 1741-
1757, $25; Dobbs County Crown
Patents, 1759-1775, $30; Dobbs
County 1780 Tax Lists (2 Lists,
1 Book) $25; Entries of Claims
for Land within the County of
Dobbs, 1778-1790, $30; Entries of
Claims for Land within the
County of Glasgow, 1790-1797,
$25; Entries of Claims for Land
within the County of Lenoir,
1792-1795, $20; Entries of
Claims for Land within the
County of Wayne, 1780-1795,
$35; Genealogical Abstracts of
Greene County Deeds, 1776-
1860, $40; Greene County 1816
Tax List, $25; Greene County
1820 Census, $25; Greene County
1830 Census, $30; Greene County
1840 Census, $30; Greene County
1850 Census, $30; Greene
County Estate Records, 1839-
1845, $35; Greene County
Cemetery Records, $35; Lenoir
County 1844 Tax List, $25.
Shipping and handling costs $3
for the first book, $1.25 each
additional book for Kilpatrick and
Murphy. For orders, write Greene
County Museum, PO Box 266,
Snow Hill, NC 28580, call or fax
(252) 747-1999, or email
greenemuseum@hotmail.com.
THE GREENSBORO HISTORICAL
MUSEUM is selling The Beat
Goes On, by retired reporter Jim
Schlosser, for $25. The book features
100 columns that Schlosser wrote
between 1968 and 2007 and range
from the offbeat to the historically
significant. The museum is also
selling Once Upon a City:
Greensboro, North Carolina’s
Second Century, by Howard
Covington, for $24.95. This
narrative history, told through the
people who helped shaped the
city, traces the city’s development
from just before the 1920s to the
start of the twenty-first century.
The museum is also now selling
Mid Life, Mid Century, Mid
South, by Virginia F. Zenke.
Zenke, who worked as an interior
designer and also became involved
in historic preservation, describes
her experiences in the mid-20th
century. Cost: $22.50. The mu-seum
is also selling Greensboro:
A Chosen Center by Gayle Fripp,
Guilford County’s official histo-rian.
This illustration-rich narra-tive
provides a chronological his-tory
of the Gate City from prehis-tory
to 2000. The work covers a
broad range of topics to capture
Greensboro’s cultural, economic,
political and social history. Cost:
$32.95. For more information, call
(336) 373-2949.
THE HENDERSON COUNTY
GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
SOCIETY, INC.: Henderson
County Heritage, Vol. I,
(reprinted 2003) $55; Henderson
County Heritage, Vol. II, $45
(add $8 shipping for the first book
and $4 for each additional book);
Index to Henderson County,
N.C. Births, 1914-1942, $50;
Index to Henderson County,
N.C. Deaths, 1914-1956, $28;
Henderson County: NC WWI
Draft Registrations, $28; The
Story of Henderson County, by
Sadie Patton, $37.50; Postmarks:
A History of Henderson
County, North Carolina, 1797-
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Federation web page: www.fnchs.org
Historical Publications from Federation Members
1968 (a history of the early post
offices, roads, communities and
families of the Henderson County
area) $28; A Brief History of the
Black Presence in Henderson
County, $20; Sketches of Polk
County, by Sadie Patton, $27.50;
and Polk County Cemetery
Book, $33.50 (add $3.50 shipping
for each). North Carolina resi-dents
add 6.75% sales tax. Send
orders to HCGHS, 400 N. Main
Street, Hendersonville, N.C. 28792,
or e-mail hcghs@bellsouth.net.
Various census records for Hender-son,
Polk, Transylvania, and
McDowell Counties are also avail-able.
Please call (828) 693-1531,
visit www.hcghs.com, or email for
availability and prices.
THE HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCI-ETY:
From Tavern to Town
Revisited: An Architectural
History of Hickory, North
Carolina, by Albert Keiser, Jr.
and Angela May. In addition to
tracing how Hickory grew from a
stagecoach stop to one of the
state’s largest economic centers,
this book also details the history
and legacy of historic preservation
in Hickory. Cost: $24.95, plus tax
and shipping. The society is also
selling Nora’s Dream: Growing
Up in 19th Century Hickory,
North Carolina. Set in the
1880s, the book tells a fact-based,
fictional story of young Nora Chu-ford,
daughter of one of Hickory’s
most prominent pioneer families.
Though the book is aimed toward
children with 2nd to 4th grade
reading levels, it will appeal to all
readers. Included separately in
this illustrated book is a Spanish
language version. Cost: $9.60 for
members, $12 for non-members,
with $3 shipping. Call (828) 322-
4731 or visit www.hickoryland
marks.org.
The HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Heart of the Blue
Ridge: Highlands, North
Carolina, by Randolph P.
Shaffner, the 800-page definitive
history of the town, $25; The
Mountain at the End of the
Trail: A History of Whiteside
Mountain, by Robert Zahner, the
story of one of the world’s oldest
mountains,$12; History and
Cuisine of Highlands Inn, by
Helen Major et al., recipes featured
by Highlands’ first hotel, $5; Good
Reading Material, Mostly Bound
and New: The Hudson Library,
1884-1994, by Randolph P. Shaffner,
a history of one of North Carolina’s
oldest libraries, $14.00 ; and
Highlands, North Carolina . . .
The Early Years, by Angela
Lewis Jenkins, a coffee-table book
containing 227 black-and-white
photographs, $50.00. For information
see the Gift Shop at www.highlands
history.com or e-mail highlandshis
tory@nctv.com.
HIGH POINT MUSEUM: Wish
You Were Here!, by Lee Dowdy,
Mary Lib Joyce and Vince
Wheeler, collection of Old High
Point postcards in a book, $19.95,
plus $3.29 tax and shipping;
When Racing Was Racing,
history of local racers 1940-1959,
by Barbara Taylor, $5.95, plus $2.36
tax and shipping, and Clark’s
Collection of Historical Re-membrances,
(Histories of High
Point), compiled by Mary Lib
Joyce, $35, plus tax and shipping.
Call (336) 885-1859.
HISTORICAL PRESERVATION
GROUP: “The First of Patriots
and the Best of Men:” Richard
Caswell in Public Life, by Clay-ton
Brown Alexander and edited
by Dr. Keats Sparrow. This is the
only book-length study of Caswell,
North Carolina’s first governor.
Cost: $26, plus $6 shipping. For
more information, contact Martha
Marble at 58marble@suddenlink.
net or send a check made out to
the Lenoir County Colonial Com-mission,
Caswell Book, PO Box
1734, Kinston, NC 28503.
HISTORIC FLAT ROCK: Flat
Rock: The Little Charleston of
the Mountains, by Galen
Reuther, about the historic village
of Flat Rock. Read about the history
of this beautiful Western North
Carolina region while viewing a
wonderful collection of period
photographs. This Images of
America book takes you from the
late 1700s to the present. Proceeds
from the book go to Historic Flat
Rock, Inc., to aid them in their
efforts to preserve historic properties
of Flat Rock, N.C. Cost is $23.99,
including shipping. Also available
are packages of note cards depicting
historic homes of Flat Rock. The
note cards are sold in boxes of 10
and include descriptions of each
property, $16.50. Both available
from HFR, P.O. Box 295, Flat
Rock, NC 28731.
HISTORIC HOPE FOUNDATION,
INC.: The Miracle of Hope
Plantation highlights 200 years
of the history of Hope Plantation.
The 24-page commemorative
program is available for $9.95
plus shipping and handling. Write
to 132 Hope House Road, Windsor,
NC 27983, call (252) 794-3140, or
visit www.hopeplantion.org.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
FOUNDATION OF NORTH CARO-LINA/
PRESERVATION NORTH
CAROLINA: North Carolina
Architecture, by Catherine
Bishir and photographs by Tim
Buchman, $59.95; Southern
Built: American Architecture,
Regional Practice, by Catherine
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Federation web page: www.fnchs.org
Historical Publications from Federation Members
Bishir, $35 for members, $42 for
non-members; and Buying Time
for Heritage, by J. Myrick Howard.
This book offers examples of real
estate strategies that can be used
to preserve historic buildings and
costs $20 for members, $25 for
non-members. Prices do not include
tax and shipping. For more infor-mation
visit www.presnc.org,
write to P.O. Box 27644, Raleigh,
N.C. 27611-7644, or call the
HPFNC at 919-832-3652.
HISTORIC STAGVILLE FOUNDA-TION:
Piedmont Plantation:
The Bennehan-Cameron Fam-ily
and Lands in North Carolina,
by Jean Bradley Anderson, $20.
Based on research in the extensive
Bennehan-Cameron family papers,
this book tells in fascinating de-tail
the story of Stagville, the larg-est
antebellum plantation in
North Carolina, and follows the
family history into the 20th century.
For more information, call (919)
620-0120.
HYDE COUNTY HISTORICAL AND
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: Hyde
County, N.C., County Court
Minutes, 1736 Thru 1756, Book
I, by Weynette Parks Haun, soft
cover, 150 pages, indexed, $30,
plus $5 shipping; Hyde County,
N.C., County Court Minutes,
1756 Thru 1785, Book II, by
Weynette Parks Haun, soft cover,
155 pages, indexed, $30, plus $5
shipping; Hyde County, N.C.,
Court Minutes, 1757 Thru 1788,
Book III, by Weynette Parks
Haun, soft cover, 171 pages, in-dexed,
$30, plus $5 shipping;
Hyde County, N.C., Court Min-utes,
1767 Thru 1784, Book IV,
by Weynette Parks Haun, soft
cover, 180 pages, indexed, $30,
plus $5 shipping; Hyde County,
N.C., Court Minutes, 1789 Thru
1797, Book V, by Weynette Parks
Haun, soft cover, 167 pages, in-dexed,
$30, plus $5 shipping;
Hyde County, N.C., Court
Minutes, 1789 Thru 1797, Book
VI, by Weynette Parks Haun, 180
pages, indexed, $30, plus $5 ship-ping;
and Hyde Yesterdays: A
History of Hyde County, by
Morgan Holt Harris, hard cover,
375 pages, name and place indices,
$30, plus $5 shipping. The society
is also offering In Memory of…:
An Index to Hyde County
Cemeteries, by Rebecca Swindell
and R. S. Spencer Jr., including
genealogical information of more
than 6,000 people buried in the
county, $40 plus $5 shipping;
Hyde County History Book, 480
pages with a section on each of
the county’s five townships, $45
plus $6 shipping; The Estates of
Hyde 1700s, by R.S. Spencer,
Jr.,abstracts of 600 folders of loose
Hyde estate records of the 1700s
in the North Carolina Archives,
indexed, $25 plus $5 shipping;
Hyde Remembers: Historic
Bible and Family Records of
Hyde County, North Carolina,
by R. S. Spencer, Jr., record of 365
Bibles and family records, $30
plus $5 shipping; The 1850 Cen-sus
of Hyde County, North
Carolina, a compilation of all
census schedules taken in 1850,
abstracted and indexed by Seth D.
and Sandra S. Carawan, $30 plus
$5 shipping; The 1900 Census of
Hyde County, North Caro-lina,
by Crestena Jennings Oak-ley,
$30 plus $5 shipping; The 1910
Census of Hyde County, North
Carolina, by Crestena Jennings
Oakley, $30 plus $5 shipping;
Hyde County, North Carolina
Record of Deeds A, 1736-1762,
abstracted and indexed by Allen
Wilkinson Hart Norris, includes
general, Negro, occupation, place
name, and women’s Christian
name indices, $25 plus $5 ship-ping;
Hyde County, North Caro-lina
Record of Deeds B, 1762-
1783, abstracted and indexed by
Allen Wilkinson Hart Norris and
edited by Betty S. Mann and Ellen
A. Williams, includes births, buri-als,
marriages as well as frag-mented
deeds, with general, In-dian,
Negro, occupation, place
name, and women’s Christian
name indices, $25 plus $5 ship-ping;
In the Name of God,
Amen! Abstracts of Hyde
County, North Carolina Wills
Probate 1709 through 1775, by
Ellen A. Williams, with full name
index, Negro index, and place
name index, $30 plus $5 shipping;
In the Name of God, Amen! Ab-stracts
of Hyde County, North
Carolina Wills Probate 1776 to
May Court 1819, Book II, by
Ellen A. Williams, with general
name index, Negro index, occupa-tion
index, Christian name index,
place name index, $30 plus $5
shipping; Hidden Ancestors:
Abstract of Bastardy Papers
and Selected Court Minutes
Hyde County, North Carolina
1740-1896, abstracted by
Crestena Jennings Oakley, edited
and indexed by Ellen A. Williams,
$25 plus $5 shipping; Hyde
County (NC) Land Divisions in
the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries, by Richard B. Lupton,
$35 plus $5 shipping; and Land-marks
of Hyde County, North
Carolina: The Mainland and
Ocracoke Island, a 250-page
hardcover book that traces the
county’s development in well-illustrated
historical and architec-tural
essays followed by an inven-tory
that profiles hundreds of
buildings, $55, plus $6 shipping.
Back issues of High Tides, a
semi-annual journal of the society,
cost $10 each plus $3 shipping per
issue, with 10 or more issues costing
$8 each plus $2 shipping per issue.
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Please note that a 6.75% sales tax
will be added to all purchases. To
order, mail requests to R. S. Spencer,
Inc., PO Box 159, Englehard, NC
27824.
THE JOHNSTON COUNTY HERI-TAGE
CENTER: Family Matters:
Homage to July, The Slave
Girl, by Shelby Stephenson, $14.
Poet and professor Stephenson
based this work on slave records
held at the Heritage Center. Images
of America: Clayton, compiled
by Pamela Baumgartner and
Todd Johnson, $19.99. African-
American Education in Johns-ton
County, by Joan Jones, Elsie
Collins, and Carolyn Ennis, $15.
Focusing on the years 1869 to
1969, this booklet includes sections
on African American teachers,
principals, and early schools.
Johnston County: Its History
Since 1746, by Thomas J. Lassiter
& T. Wingate Lassiter. This narra-tive
history is by two former editors
of The Smithfield Herald and is
available for $15 plus tax and
shipping. Visit www.johnstonnc/
heritage/giftshop, or call (919)
934-2836.
LOWER CAPE FEAR HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Historic Wilmington
and the Lower Cape Fear: An
Illustrated History, by Dr. Chris
Fonvielle, $49.95; The Bank of
Cape Fear of Wilmington,
North Carolina, by Robert
Neale, $16.05; Stories Old and
New of the Cape Fear Region,
as told by Louis T. Moore, $16.05;
Salt, That Necessary Article,
by Isabel M. Williams and Leora
H. McEachern, $8.50; Harnett,
Hooper & Howe: Revolutionary
Leaders of the Lower Cape
Fear, by Alan D. Watson, Dennis
R. Lawson, and Donald R. Lennon,
$21.35; Marvelous Old Mansion
and Other Southern Treasures,
by Sylvia Higgenbotham, $18.15;
Wilmington Through the Lens
of Louis T. Moore, by Susan Tay-lor
Block, $48.15; and Modern
Recipes of Historic Wilmington,
by Ann Hertzler, $21.40. All prices
include tax; $5 per book shipping.
Call (910) 762-0492, visit
www.latimerhouse. org, or write
LCFHS, 126 South 3rd St., Wil-mington,
NC 28401.
MACON COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: The Heritage of
Macon County, Volume II,
$65.58, including tax and shipping;
and Cherokee Indian Lore and
Smoky Mountain Stories, a 112-
page book which includes infor-mation
about Macon County’s
history and its founding fathers,
the Silers, $9.59, including shipping.
Downtown Discovery Hike
Franklin N.C. features historical
information and photographs of
Franklin in a format of brief
explanations, activities, puzzles,
games, and thought-provoking
questions for children and adults.
This publication costs $6.12,
including shipping. Write to the
MCHS, 36 W. Main Street, Frank-lin,
NC 28734, or call 828-524-9758.
MARTIN COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Martin County,
North Carolina – Abstracts of
Deed Books A, 1774-1787, lists
more than 900 deeds with index,
including names, place names,
Negroes, 130 pages for $25, plus
tax; Martin County, North
Carolina: Abstracts of Deed
Books B & C, 1787-1801, lists
1600 deeds with index, including
names, place names, Negroes, 170
pages for $35, plus tax; Martin
County, North Carolina:
Abstracts of Deed Books D & E,
1802-1810, lists over 893 deeds
with index, including names,
places, African Americans, 137
pages for $30, plus tax. Get all
three volumes of Deed Abstracts
for $75.00, plus tax. Martin
County, North Carolina:
Abstracts of Will Books 1 & 2,
1774-1868, lists more than 800
wills abstracted with an index of
approximately 6000 entries,
including names and place names,
240 pages for $35, plus tax;
Martin County, North
Carolina: Abstracts of Will
Books 3 & 4, 1868-1910, lists
approximately 600 wills
abstracted with few place names
included but over 2400 entries of
names in the index, 110 pages for
$20, plus tax. Get both volumes of
Abstract of Wills Books for $50,
plus tax. Martin County
Heritage, North Carolina, lists
over 1100 family, church and
community histories with pictures,
indexed with over 40,000 entries,
878 pages, $60, plus tax; Martin
County History, Volume I, traces
the history of the formation of
Martin County, the townships,
and towns. Records of prominent
people, county officials, newspapers
and other subjects are included.
This 337-page publication costs $35,
plus tax. Martin County History,
Volume II, gives reviews of
transportation, agriculture,
industry, and accommodations,
including “ordinaries” and other
subjects, 364 pages, $35, plus tax;
Religion and Education in
Martin County, 1774-1974, by
Francis M. Manning and W.H.
Booker, contains over 140 church
histories, lists of schools and
instructors, and many pictures.
The 331-page hard cover is
available for $35.00, including
tax. A three-volume set including
Religion and Education in Martin
County and Martin County History,
Vol. I and II sells for $90 plus tax.
Fort Branch and the Defense
of the Roanoke Valley, 1862-
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1865, is a research report
presented to the Fort Branch
Battlefield Commission by Philip
Shiman in 1990 and includes a
history of Fort Branch, footnoted,
with maps and illustrations, 100
pages, $16, plus tax; Hugh Smith-wick
Descendants, by William
Doub Bennett chronicles the
Smithwick family and also
includes more than 300 family
histories written by contributors,
500 pages, $50, plus tax; Martin
County Architectural Heritage:
The Historic Structures of a
Rural North Carolina County,
by Thomas R. Butchko, traces the
architectural heritage of the
county from 1700 until 1946. Some
500 photographs trace the county’s
building forms, traditions, and
styles. The book is a comprehensive
study of the history of dwellings,
farm structures, commercial
buildings, churches, schools,
industries, and the people
associated with them. Available
for $60, plus $5 shipping. Also
available are Martin County:
Images of America, by Fred W.
Harrison, Jr., has 128 pages of
historic photographs depicting the
life and times of Martin County,
$20.13; Autobiographical
Sketch of Asa Biggs: Written
March 1865, $15 plus shipping
and handling; Wynne Genealogy
(includes Win, Winn, Wynn,
Wynns, and Wynne), $45 plus tax;
Martin County’s Historic
Churches, listing churches on the
National Register and in National
Historic Districts, $10 plus shipping;
and The Historic Architecture
of Hamilton, North Carolina,
$10 plus shipping. Write to P. O.
Box 468, Williamston, N.C. 27892
THE MECKLENBURG HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION: A Life in Ante-bellum
Charlotte: The Private
Journal of Sarah Frew David-son,
1837, edited by Karen
McConnell, Janet Dyer, and Ann
Williams, with a forward by Mary
Kratt, and published by The His-tory
Press, Charleston SC. This is
a transcription of Sarah Davidson’s
Journal for 1837, with additional
historic information written by
the editors. 1837 was a pivotal
year in the history of North Caro-lina
with the development of the
gold mining industry and the
construction of the first branch of
the US Mint, in Charlotte. Other
events described include the
education of slave children and
Sarah’s religious introspection
and commitment. The original
Journal is held in the Rare Book
and Manuscript Collection of the
J. Murrey Atkins Library at
UNCC. The book sells for $24.00
including tax, handling and
shipping. Chain of Error and
the Mecklenburg Declarations
of Independence by V. V.
McNitt, republished by the MHA
with a new introduction and Brief
Sketches of the signers added.
This is a closely reasoned and
thorough description of the two
declarations of May 20 & May
31,1775 which were the earliest
declarations of independence from
Great Britain in the American
colonies. The book sells for $28.50,
including tax & shipping. Your
Affectionate Daughter, Isabella,
by Ann Williams, published by
Bright Mountain Books, Asheville,
is the story of Isabella Torrance,
preserved through letters and
other records now held in the
Rare Book and Manuscript Collec-tion
of the J. Murrey Atkins Library
at UNCC. The story is written
from the points of view of those
who lived it and told in the
language they spoke. It tells the
story of growing up on a wealthy
antebellum plantation in Mecklen-burg
County and at the Salem
Female Boarding School; of pioneer-ing
in primitive conditions on the
Mississippi frontier; and of Isabella’s
return to Mecklenburg as a young
widow with a small child. This
book sells for $21.50, including
tax & shipping. To order these
books, send your check and mailing
instructions to The MHA, PO Box
35032, Charlotte, NC 28235.
MOORE COUNTY HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION: Miscellaneous
Ancient Records of Moore
County, by Rassie E. Wicker,
$19.95; Namesake: Alfred
Moore, Soldier and Jurist,
1775-1810, by Robert Mason,
$9.95; Young Southern Pines,
by Helen G. Huttenhour, $19.95;
Plain-Style: The Work of 18th
and 19th Century Craftsmen in
Moore County, North Carolina,
$8.95; The County of Moore,
1747-1847, by Blackwell Robinson,
$14.95; Errata and Addenda
(for above) by Rassie E. Wicker,
edited by J. Atwood Whitman
$1.95; The Story of Moore
County, by Manly Wade Wellman,
$14.95; and The County of
Moore 1847-1947, by Manly
Wade Wellman, $14.95. Sand in
My Shoes (332 pages, soft cover),
by Catharine Ball Ripley, first
published in 1931, tells of a young
woman’s adventures and misad-ventures
in trying to establish a
peach orchard in the Sandhills in
the 1920s and is available for
$14.95. Also available are My Pee
Dee River Hills (225 pages, soft
cover), by Chris Florance, a book
based upon the early life of the
author, who grew up in the Sand-hills;
$14.95; Moore County:
Images of America by Richard J.
Schloegl, $16.99; Patterns in
Sand, by Meade Seawell, $9.95;
and Tale of a Tar Heel Town,
by Meade Seawell, $5. Larry
Koster’s recent publication, More
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Moore County History, won the
Willie Parker Peace History Book
Award from the N.C. Society of
Historians. More Moore County
History is available at the Shaw
House Bookshop for $9.95. Please
add 7% tax plus $2.00 per book
shipping and mail to MCHA, PO
Box 324, Southern Pines, NC
28388 or visit www.moorehistory.
com, or call 910-692-2051.
MOUNT AIRY MUSEUM OF
REGIONAL HISTORY: Surry
County Soldiers in the Civil
War, by Hester Bartlett Jackson,
contains records and personal
writings of Civil War soldiers, soft
cover, 465 pages, $30, including
tax and shipping; Surry County
Heritage – North Carolina Vol.
II, contains family histories, hard
cover, 514 pages, $64, including
tax and shipping; and A Portion
of My Life, by William Norman,
diary written while a prisoner on
Johnson Island during the Civil
War, hard cover, $30, including
tax and shipping. MAMRH, 300
North Main Street, Mount Airy,
N.C. 27030.
MURFREESBORO HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION: Trial Separation:
Murfreesboro N.C. and The
Civil War; Murfreesboro N.C.
and the Founding of the
American Republic (1608-
1781); and Murfreesboro N.C.
and the Great Intracoastal
Waterway 1786-1814, by Thomas
C. Parramore, all paper covers,
$15 each; The Gatling Aeroplane
of 1873, America’s First Air-plane,
by Thomas C. Parramore,
paper cover for $7; Legends and
Myths of North Carolina’s
Roanoke Chowan Area, by F.
Roy Johnson, hard cover for $15;
The Peanut Story; The Fabled
Doctor Jim Jordan; Volume I-The
Tuscaroras: Mythology,
Medicine, and Culture; Volume
II: The Tuscaroras: History,
Tradition, and Culture all by F.
Roy Johnson for $15 each;
Murfreesboro, NC: Cradle of
Titans and Murfreesboro, NC,
and the Roots of Nat Turner’s
Revolt by Thomas C. Parramore
for $15 each; A History of the
Riddick Plantation of Hertford
County, NC, by Frank Harris
(paperback) for $15; and The
Walking Tour Booklet for $5.00.
Please add $3 shipping and handling
for each book and NC sales tax of
7%. MHA, PO Box 3 Murfreesboro,
N.C. 27855 Please call (252) 398-
5922.
THE NORTH CAROLINA PRESBY-TERIAN
HISTORICAL SOCIETY has
reprinted a 1964 speech by Dr.
Harold J. Dudley entitled “Toryism
in North Carolina.” A reprint is
available for $2; contact Sally
MacLeod Owens at 919-835-0920
to order a copy.
OCRACOKE PRESERVATION SOCI-ETY:
The Society has a number of
books and videos on Ocracoke
history and the local dialect,
Ocracoke Brogue. For more infor-mation,
call 252-928-7375; e-mail
giftshop@ocracokepreservation.org;
write to the OPS, P.O. Box 1240,
Ocracoke, N.C. 27960; or visit
www.ocracokepreservation.org.
ONSLOW COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Onslow County Court
Minutes, Vol. I (1732-1743),
Vol. II (1744-1754), Vol. III
(1755-1765), and Vol. IV (1766-
1775), $17.50 each; The Heritage
of Onslow County, North Caro-lina,
hard cover, contains family
histories, a county history presented
through old photographs and
newspaper articles, a pictorial
honor section, and a section
dealing with the federal govern-ment’s
1941 acquisition of land for
the Marine Corps bases of Camp
Lejeune and New River Air Sta-tion,
$51.73, plus tax and ship-ping.
Also available are Markers
of Time: Cemeteries of Onslow
County, soft cover volumes for
$24, including tax and shipping;
and The Battle of New River, by
L. J. Kimball, soft cover, $20,
including tax and shipping.
Contact the OCHS, P.O. Box
5203, Jacksonville, N.C. 28540.
PERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Person County Heri-tage,
Vols. I,. II, & III, $50 each
plus $3.50 each for shipping;
Reminiscences for $10 plus
$3.50 shipping; Index for Remi-niscences
for $5 plus $2.50 ship-ping;
and Penelope’s Papers for
$15 plus $3.50 shipping. Please
add 7% sales tax. Send orders to
PCHS, P.O. Box 887, Roxboro, N.C.
27573 or call 336-597-3134.
THE PITT COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Chronicles of Pitt
County, North Carolina (2003
reprint of 1982 edition), $74.90,
including tax, plus $10 shipping;
Chronicles of Pitt County,
North Carolina—Volume II,
$74.90, including tax, plus $10
shipping; Historic Architecture
of Pitt County, $42.80, including
tax, plus $8 shipping; Cemetery
Survey of Pitt County, North
Carolina, $50, including tax,
plus $10 shipping. For more infor-mation,
contact Sandra Hunsucker
at (252) 355-2149.
PRESERVATION DURHAM is offer-ing
Remembering Durham: The
Way We Were, by Mena Webb, a
compilation of her Durham Sun
and Durham Morning Herald
columns between 1989 and 1992,
$26; East Durham Pattern
Book, a valuable resource for
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
renovators, offering many ideas
for restoring and renovating
vernacular American homes of the
early 20th century, $15; Durham
County: A History of Durham
County, North Carolina, by
Jean Anderson, a sweeping history
of Durham County, integrating
the stories of well-known figures
with those of ordinary men and
women, black and white, to create
a complex but fascinating portrait
of Durham’s economic, political,
social, and labor history, $41; and
The Durham Record, by Jean
Anderson and J. B. Flowers, eds.
This book features a collection of
articles on remarkable people
from Durham’s history including:
“William Johnston: Eighteenth-
Century Entrepreneur,” by William
S. Powell, “South Lowell Male
Academy and Its First Headmaster,”
by Elizabeth Anderson Persons,
“Lillian Baker Griggs: Pioneer
Librarian,” by Betty Irene Young,
and “Durham’s Early Lutherans,”
by Doris Tilley, $7. Also available
are Durham: A Bull City Story,
by Jim Wise, $27; Durham,
North Carolina: A Postcard
History, by Stephen Massengill,
$21; Durham: A Pictorial His-tory,
by Joel and Frank Kostyu,
$27, and 1891 Bird’s Eye View
Map of Durham, 24” x 13”, $11.
For more information, or to order,
call the HPSD at 919-682-3036, or
send an email to info@preservation
durham.org.
THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF
CHAPEL HILL: The Town and
Gown Architecture of Chapel
Hill, 1795-1975. Written by
architectural historian and UNC
alumna Dr. Ruth Little, this 325-
page book offers an architectural
and historical survey of Chapel Hill
and features 274 photographs. $30
for members and $35 for non-members.
Please add 7% sales tax
and $7 shipping for each book. To
order, call 919-942-7818.
THE RAILROAD HOUSE ASSOCIA-TION
is offering The Men of
Endor: Their Works and
Times, 1861-1876, by Robert A.
Weisner and edited by Lynn
Veach Sadler, $25 plus $5 shipping
and handling; Images of America:
Sanford and Lee County, by
Jimmy Haire and W. W. Seymore,
Jr., $28, which includes tax and
shipping; and In Celebration of
the 2007 Centennial of Lee
County, edited by Lynn Veach
Sadler, containing a collection of
historical articles and creative
works, $20 plus $5 shipping and
handling. To order, please send
your orders to the Railroad House
Association Inc., PO Box 1023,
Sanford, NC 27331-1023, Attention:
Jane Barringer Book Sale. The
association notes that its best-selling
book The History and
Architecture of Lee County,
North Carolina, by J. Daniel
Pezzoni, is now out of print but
can occasionally be found for sale
on the internet.
RALEIGH HISTORIC DISTRICTS
COMMISSION: Culture Town:
Life in Raleigh’s African
American Communities, by
Linda Simons-Henry (oral history)
and Linda Harris Edmisten
(architectural history), utilizes
oral history and architectural
survey to show contributions
made by eight communities to
Raleigh’s cultural development.
Copies are available for $35 from
the Raleigh Historic Districts
Commission office-One Exchange
Plaza, Ste. 300, Raleigh, NC, or by
mail for $38.50 (includes ship-ping)
from PO Box 829, Century
Station, Raleigh, NC 27602.
RICHMOND COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: The Architectural
History of Richmond County,
$80 (tax and shipping included).
Featuring 357 photographs, this
book features properties of histori-cal
significance and ranges in
time from the Pee Dee Indian Cul-ture
to the present. No Ordinary
Lives: A History of Richmond
County from 1750-1900 by John
Hutchinson, $45. Write to the
RCHS, PO Box 1763, Rocking-ham,
NC 28380, or call (910) 895-
1660.
SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA
ARCHIVISTS: Archival & Manu-script
Repositories in North
Carolina: A Directory (1992)
(2nd publishing). This 149-page
directory identifies and describes
133 repositories in North Carolina
with archival or manuscript hold-ings.
Member price is $17, includes
shipping; non-member price is
$22, includes shipping. Make
checks payable to Margaret M.
Hofmann, P.O. Box 446, Roanoke
Rapids, NC 27870.
SOUTHPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY:
Of Home and the River: South-port
Stories from the Civil War
to the Present, $20 for members,
$24 for non-members. Architec-ture
of Southport, by Carl
Lounsbury, second printing, 62-
page soft cover, $7; Bald Head, by
David Stick, $17; Cap’n
Charlie and the Lights of the
Lower Cape Fear, by Ethel
Herring, revised edition, $10.75;
The Cemeteries of Southport,
compiled by Dorcas W. Schmidt,
94-page soft cover, $8.50; Classic
Southport Cooking, by Lewis J.
Hardee, Jr., 409-page hard cover
for $22; Fort Caswell in War
and Peace, by Ethel Herring and
Carolee Williams, 138-page hard
cover, $18.25; Guns for Cotton,
by Thomas Boaz, $10.75; A History
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Historical Publications from Federation Members
of Fort Johnston, by Wilson
Angley, 150-page soft cover, $6;
Joshua’s Dream, by Susan S.
Carson, 168-page soft cover, $10;
Joshua’s Legacy, by Susan S.
Carson and Jon Lewis, $10; Lelia
Jane, A Very Gentle Lady, by
Susie Carson and Larry Maisel,
$14; Long Beach, A North
Carolina Town: Its Origin and
History, by Wolfgang Furstenau,
364-page hard cover, $19.25;
Reminiscences of Wilmington
and Smithville-Southport
1848-1900, by Walter G. Curtis,
$9; Southport Secrets, compiled
by Donald K. Johnson, 88-page
soft cover, $8; Southport
(Smithville): A Chronology,
Volume II, 1878-1920, $6; Volume
III, 1920-1940, 248-page soft
cover, $6; Volume IV, 1940-1970,
$6; all volumes by Bill Reaves. All
prices include tax. Add $3 ship-ping
for each book. P.O. Box
10014, Southport, N.C. 28461-
0014. For information, call (910)
457-0579, or visit www.south
porthistoricalsociety.com.
STANLY COUNTY MUSEUM:
Images of America: Stanly
County, by Douglas Buchanan, a
pictorial history of the county,
$18.99; The Historic Stanly
County Coloring Book, featuring
22 historic county scenes, $2.50;
Stanly County: The Architec-tural
Legacy of a Rural North
Carolina County, by Donna
Dodenhoff, $45. For more infor-mation
contact the SCM, 245 E.
Main St., Albemarle, N.C. 28001,
(704) 986-3777.
TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY JOINT
HISTORICAL PRESERVATION
COMMISSION: Transylvania:
The Architectural History of a
Mountain County, $47.85, includ-ing
tax. Transylvania County
Planning Department, P.O. Box
1578, Brevard, N.C. 28712, or call
(828) 884-3205.
WACHOVIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY:
Moravians in Europe and
America 1415-1865: Hidden
Seed and Harvest, by Chester S.
Davis, tells the story from its
beginning in a hidden seed of believ-ers
forced from their homes in
Bohemia and Moravia during the
wars of the Counter Reformation,
$8.31, includes tax & shipping.
The Wachovia Historical Soci-ety:
1895-1995, by Bradford L.
Rauschenberg, $33.80, includes
tax & shipping; Salem Remem-brances,
$11.49, includes tax &
shipping. Contact the WHS, P.O.
Box 20803, Winston-Salem, N.C.
27120.
WARREN COUNTY HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION: The Architecture
of Warren County, North Caro-lina,
by Kenneth McFarland. The
cost is $45.00 plus $3.00 shipping.
WCHA, PO Box 441 Warrenton,
N.C. 25789. Copies may also be
purchased at the North Carolina
Museum of History gift shop.
THE WAYNE COUNTY HISTORI-CAL
MUSEUM: After Sherman’s
March: Goldsboro at the End
of the Civil War, by Emily Weil,
$25 (plus tax) and $5 shipping.
Based on letters, diaries, and
other artifacts along with family
stories, this creative non-fiction
book describes the arrival of
Sherman and Union troops in
Goldsboro; the end of the Civil
War; and life during Reconstruc-tion
in this small Southern
town.To order, call (919) 734-
5023. Wayne County Cemeter-ies,
Vol. II, $50 (plus 6.75% tax
and $5 shipping). This 400-page
volume includes cemeteries in
New Hope, Pikeville, Saulston,
and Stoney Creek. To order this
volume, make checks payable to
Old Dobbs Genealogical Society,
PO Box 665, Goldsboro, NC
27533-0665.
WHALEHEAD CLUB: The Whale-head
Club: A Legacy Preserved,
by Mollie Isaacs. A visual tour of
the Whalehead Club, the restored
residence of Mr. and Mrs. E.C.
Knight, Jr., on the Outer Banks of
North Carolina. Virginian-Pilot
critic, Mary Ellen Riddle praised
the publication by saying the book
“integrates information on the
background of the club with a
beautifully written and stimulat-ing
explanation of the Art Nouveau
Movement.” Proceeds from the
sale of the book support the
Whalehead Club and Currituck
Heritage Park. The Whalehead
Club: Reflections of Currituck
Heritage, by Susan Joy Davis.
More than two centuries of historic
events that reflect the spirited
legacy of the Whalehead Club and
Currituck Heritage are poignantly
depicted in this 160-page book by
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Period photos and a brilliant time
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WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION/
SMITH-MCDOWELL HOUSE
MUSEUM: An Architect and His
Times: Richard Sharp Smith,
A Retrospective. This attractive
48-page booklet was issued in
conjunction with an award-winning
special exhibit about
Smith and features rare photo-graphs
and architectural drawings
of his designs, $4.00, includes tax;
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Federation web page: www.fnchs.org
Historical Publications from Federation Members
shipping $2 for the first copy, $1
for each additional copy; Civil
War Dead from Buncombe
County, North Carolina: 1861-
1864, by Eric Emory. This publica-tion
lists the names of the Union
and Confederate soldiers from
Buncombe County who died during
the Civil War. Only one copy left;
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Buncombe and Buncombe
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with assistance of Dix Sars-field.
This 32-page booklet covers
the life and death of Colonel
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in Tyrell County, N.C. Cost $1,
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about Asheville’s spookiest places
and costs $14.95, including tax;
shipping is $4. For inquiries, write
to the Western North Carolina
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or email smh@wnchistory.org.
The HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS
SECTION of the N.C. Office of
Archives and History offers six
new publications: Just Yester-day:
North Carolina People
and Places, is a collection of 191
photographs spanning the fifty-year
career of Bruce Roberts, first
director of photography for South-ern
Living Magazine. The images
are grouped by geographical region
and commentary by the photogra-pher
is included. Cost: $34.69.
Liberty and Freedom: North
Carolina’s Tour of the Bill of
Rights, is an anthology of seven
essays commemorating the return
of North Carolina’s copy of the
Bill of Rights to the state. The
essayists recount the history of
the document and discuss specific
rights guaranteed in the Bill of
Rights. Cost: $24.01. North
Carolina Troops, 1861–1865: A
Roster, Volume XVI, Thomas’s
Legion, edited by Matthew M.
Brown and Michael W. Coffey,
presents an authoritative 247-page
history of Thomas’s Legion, a mili-tary
unit significant for the large
number of Cherokee Indians who
served in its ranks. The volume
also includes the service records of
those men and a detailed index.
Cost: $63.38. Randolph County:
A Brief History, by L. Barron
Mills Jr., traces the history of
Randolph County from its pre-colonial
native American habitation
through European settlement in
the 18th century, growing indus-trialization
in the 19th and 20th
centuries, and its establishment
as a national tourist destination
in the 21st century. Cost: $20.81.
Watering the Sahara: Recollec-tions
of Paul Green from 1894
to 1937, by James R. Spence and
edited by Margaret D. Bauer, is
based on previously unpublished
interviews with Paul Green and
chronicles the dramatist’s life
from childhood in Harnett County
to service in WWI, the beginnings
of his careers as both educator
and writer, his work as a Holly-wood
screenwriter, and the theater
collaborations that culminated in
the creation of the symphonic
drama The Lost Colony. Cost:
$24.01. Worthy of Record: The
Civil War and Reconstruction
Diaries of Columbus Lafayette
Turner, edited by Kenrick N.
Simpson, documents C. L.
Turner’s Civil War experiences as
a prisoner of war in two Federal
prisons (Fort Delaware and John-son’s
Island) and his service as a
legislator in the General Assembly
in early 1874. The volume includes
well-researched introductions to
the diaries and exhaustive anno-tated
endnotes. Cost: $34.69.
Note: All prices include tax and
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Order these books from the Histori-cal
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The Historical Publications Section
also publishes the North Carolina
Historical Review. This quarterly
journal offers articles that cover
North Carolina and southern
history from the colonial period to
the present. Each issue also features
numerous reviews of recent books
about state, regional, and national
history as well as an annual bibli-ography
of books on North Caro-lina
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The Historical Publications Section
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